Debian Bug report logs - #263756
manpages-dev: outb man page doesn't actually tell you what order port/data are in

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Package: manpages-dev; Maintainer for manpages-dev is Dr. Tobias Quathamer <[email protected]>; Source for manpages-dev is src:manpages (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: [email protected]

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:03:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed-upstream, patch

Found in version 1.67-2

Fixed in version manpages/2.08-1

Done: Martin Schulze <[email protected]>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Package: manpages-dev
Version: 1.67-2
Severity: minor


The outb man page has this to say:

       outb and friends are hardware specific. The port and value
       arguments are in the opposite order from most DOS
       implementations.

which isn't useful, because I don't know what order they are in under
DOS.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages manpages-dev depends on:
ii  manpages                      1.67-2     Manual pages about using a GNU/Lin

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