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authorDima Dorfman <dd@FreeBSD.org>2001-11-24 17:02:58 +0000
committerDima Dorfman <dd@FreeBSD.org>2001-11-24 17:02:58 +0000
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Talk about what the user needs to do to get the snp devices, and how
watch(8) will try to help them by loading the module. PR: 25420
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=86867
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diff --git a/usr.sbin/watch/watch.8 b/usr.sbin/watch/watch.8
index 5ab09a64617c..f855ec1f60d8 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/watch/watch.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/watch/watch.8
@@ -14,7 +14,16 @@
.Op Ar tty
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm Watch
-allows the user to examine all data coming through a specified tty.
+allows the user to examine all data coming through a specified tty
+using the
+.Xr snp 4
+device.
+If the
+.Xr snp 4
+device is not available,
+.Nm
+will attempt to load the module
+.Pq Nm snp .
.Nm Watch
writes to standard output.
.Pp
@@ -91,7 +100,8 @@ control-X is passed to the terminal as with other control characters.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr pty 4 ,
.Xr sio 4 ,
-.Xr snp 4
+.Xr snp 4 ,
+.Xr kldload 8
.Sh BUGS
No terminal emulation is performed.
All user output is reproduced as-is.