Deprecate fdc(4) and floppy utilities

Floppies have been obsolete for over a decade. Add a deprecation note
now and plan to remove fdc(4) support in 16.

Reviewed by: ziaee
Sponsored by: The FreeBS

Deprecate fdc(4) and floppy utilities

Floppies have been obsolete for over a decade. Add a deprecation note
now and plan to remove fdc(4) support in 16.

Reviewed by: ziaee
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D41549

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Remove $FreeBSD$: two-line nroff pattern

Remove /^\.\\"\n\.\\"\s*\$FreeBSD\$$\n/

Add example usage for formatting a floppy disk. Adding a more self
contained example here in the fdformat man page will allow us to
modernize and streamline the FreeBSD Handbook by cutting out some

Add example usage for formatting a floppy disk. Adding a more self
contained example here in the fdformat man page will allow us to
modernize and streamline the FreeBSD Handbook by cutting out some of
this legacy material.

While here, address some other minor grammatical nits in this man page.

Reviewed by: bcr (mentor)
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24971

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Deprecate fdc(4) and floppy utilities

Floppies have been obsolete for over a decade. Add a deprecation note
now and plan to remove fdc(4) support in 16.

Reviewed by: ziaee
Sponsored by: The FreeBS

Deprecate fdc(4) and floppy utilities

Floppies have been obsolete for over a decade. Add a deprecation note
now and plan to remove fdc(4) support in 16.

Reviewed by: ziaee
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D41549

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Remove $FreeBSD$: two-line nroff pattern

Remove /^\.\\"\n\.\\"\s*\$FreeBSD\$$\n/

Add example usage for formatting a floppy disk. Adding a more self
contained example here in the fdformat man page will allow us to
modernize and streamline the FreeBSD Handbook by cutting out some

Add example usage for formatting a floppy disk. Adding a more self
contained example here in the fdformat man page will allow us to
modernize and streamline the FreeBSD Handbook by cutting out some of
this legacy material.

While here, address some other minor grammatical nits in this man page.

Reviewed by: bcr (mentor)
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24971

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fdformat is a sysadmin command and thus its man page should be in
volume 8 instead of volume 1.

Reviewed by: imp
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13370

mdoc: order prologue macros consistently by Dd/Dt/Os

Although groff_mdoc(7) gives another impression, this is the ordering
most widely used and also required by mdocml/mandoc.

Reviewed by: ru
Appro

mdoc: order prologue macros consistently by Dd/Dt/Os

Although groff_mdoc(7) gives another impression, this is the ordering
most widely used and also required by mdocml/mandoc.

Reviewed by: ru
Approved by: philip, ed (mentors)

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Fix a nit noticed during translation.

The default fill byte is 0xf6, not 0xf5.

One of the DIAGNOSTICS sections should be EXIT STATUS.

mdoc(7) police: doh, again I forgot about this XXX.

mdoc(7) police: tidy up the markup.

Second round of floppy disk driver documentation updates: document the
changes in the userland utilities. For fdcontrol(8), i now finally
keep my promise made more than 7 years ago that ``the fdcont

Second round of floppy disk driver documentation updates: document the
changes in the userland utilities. For fdcontrol(8), i now finally
keep my promise made more than 7 years ago that ``the fdcontrol
utility is currently under development and the user interface will
likely change''. :-)

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mdoc(7) police: s/BSD/.Bx/ where appropriate.

mdoc(7) police:

Avoid using parenthesis enclosure macros (.Pq and .Po/.Pc) with plain text.
Not only this slows down the mdoc(7) processing significantly, but it also
has an undesired (in this case)

mdoc(7) police:

Avoid using parenthesis enclosure macros (.Pq and .Po/.Pc) with plain text.
Not only this slows down the mdoc(7) processing significantly, but it also
has an undesired (in this case) effect of disabling hyphenation within the
entire enclosed block.

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Use the printstatus() function from ${.CURDIR}/../fdread/fdutil.c to
give a bit more information about up to 10 errors encountered during
formatting (unless -q has been specified, of course).

While

Use the printstatus() function from ${.CURDIR}/../fdread/fdutil.c to
give a bit more information about up to 10 errors encountered during
formatting (unless -q has been specified, of course).

While being here, removed a bitrotten comment in the Makefile, and
kill the old Emacs local variable stuff at the end of fdformat.c
that's no longer useful anway.

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Prepare for mdoc(7)NG.

mdoc(7) police: do not split author names in the AUTHORS section.

mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.

Avoid use of direct troff requests in mdoc(7) manual pages.

Add -y option which doesn't ask for confimation, but still shows progress

PR: 9259
Submitted by: Clark Gaylord <cgaylord@vt.edu>

Remove single-space hard sentence breaks. These degrade the quality
of the typeset output, tend to make diffs harder to read and provide
bad examples for new-comers to mdoc.

Fix fdformat to not use /dev/r* device nodes anymore, this usage
has been made obsolete by the block/char device merging.

Reflect this change in the manual page and fix the usage of a
backslash in `

Fix fdformat to not use /dev/r* device nodes anymore, this usage
has been made obsolete by the block/char device merging.

Reflect this change in the manual page and fix the usage of a
backslash in ``e.g.''.

Reviewed by: bright, sheldonh, phk

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Correct use of .Nm.