From 6215fd56f1c9d9392806efd1ac499f91c8ae83fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rsc <devnull@localhost>
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 02:56:37 +0000
Subject: experiment: translation from standard notations to plan 9 in
 netmkaddr

---
 man/man3/dial.3 | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

(limited to 'man/man3/dial.3')

diff --git a/man/man3/dial.3 b/man/man3/dial.3
index 7177e53e..5c645287 100644
--- a/man/man3/dial.3
+++ b/man/man3/dial.3
@@ -162,6 +162,22 @@ It takes an address along with a default network and service to use
 if they are not specified in the address.
 It returns a pointer to static data holding the actual address to use.
 .PP
+.I Netmkaddr
+also translates Unix conventions into Plan 9 syntax.
+If 
+.I addr
+is the name of a local file or Unix domain socket,
+.I netmkaddr
+will return
+.IB unix ! addr \fR.
+If
+.I addr
+is of the form 
+.IB host : port \fR,
+.I netmkaddr
+will return
+.IB net ! host ! port \fR.
+.PP
 .I Dialparse
 parses a network address as described above
 into a network name, a Unix domain socket address,
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