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--- a/gen/FreeBSD/popen.3
+++ b/gen/FreeBSD/popen.3
@@ -30,14 +30,14 @@
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
 .\"     @(#)popen.3	8.2 (Berkeley) 5/3/95
-.\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/gen/popen.3,v 1.15 2003/01/03 05:21:59 tjr Exp $
+.\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/gen/popen.3,v 1.16 2003/06/08 10:01:51 charnier Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd May 3, 1995
 .Dt POPEN 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
-.Nm popen ,
-.Nm pclose
+.Nm pclose ,
+.Nm popen
 .Nd process
 .Tn I/O
 .Sh LIBRARY
@@ -45,16 +45,20 @@
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .In stdio.h
 .Ft FILE *
-.Fn popen "const char *command" "const char *type"
+.Fo popen
+.Fa "const char *command"
+.Fa "const char *mode"
+.Fc
 .Ft int
-.Fn pclose "FILE *stream"
+.Fo pclose
+.Fa "FILE *stream"
+.Fc
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The
 .Fn popen
 function
 .Dq opens
-a process by creating a bidirectional pipe
-forking,
+a process by creating a bidirectional pipe, forking,
 and invoking the shell.
 Any streams opened by previous
 .Fn popen
@@ -62,18 +66,18 @@ calls in the parent process are closed in the new child process.
 Historically,
 .Fn popen
 was implemented with a unidirectional pipe;
-hence many implementations of
+hence, many implementations of
 .Fn popen
 only allow the
-.Fa type
+.Fa mode
 argument to specify reading or writing, not both.
-Since
+Because
 .Fn popen
 is now implemented using a bidirectional pipe, the
-.Fa type
+.Fa mode
 argument may request a bidirectional data flow.
 The
-.Fa type
+.Fa mode
 argument is a pointer to a null-terminated string
 which must be
 .Ql r
@@ -88,7 +92,7 @@ The
 argument is a pointer to a null-terminated string
 containing a shell command line.
 This command is passed to
-.Pa /bin/sh
+.Pa /bin/sh ,
 using the
 .Fl c
 flag; interpretation, if any, is performed by the shell.
@@ -97,7 +101,7 @@ The return value from
 .Fn popen
 is a normal standard
 .Tn I/O
-stream in all respects
+stream in all respects,
 save that it must be closed with
 .Fn pclose
 rather than
@@ -115,14 +119,14 @@ the command's standard input is the same as that of the process that called
 .Pp
 Note that output
 .Fn popen
-streams are fully buffered by default.
+streams are fully buffered, by default.
 .Pp
 The
 .Fn pclose
-function waits for the associated process to terminate
-and returns the exit status of the command
+function waits for the associated process to terminate;
+it returns the exit status of the command,
 as returned by
-.Fn wait4 .
+.Xr wait4 2 .
 .Sh RETURN VALUES
 The
 .Fn popen
@@ -147,7 +151,7 @@ command, if
 already
 .Dq pclosed ,
 or if
-.Xr wait4
+.Xr wait4 2
 returns an error.
 .Sh ERRORS
 The