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-.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.239 2019/05/26 01:28:09 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.240 2019/07/10 19:39:01 schwarze Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
-.\" Copyright (c) 2012, 2014-2018 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
+.\" Copyright (c) 2012, 2014-2019 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
.\"
.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 26 2019 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 10 2019 $
.Dt MANDOC 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ No input files have been read.
.It 6
An operating system error occurred, for example exhaustion
of memory, file descriptors, or process table entries.
-Such errors cause
+Such errors may cause
.Nm
to exit at once, possibly in the middle of parsing or formatting a file.
.El
@@ -778,6 +778,13 @@ fields.
.Pp
Message levels have the following meanings:
.Bl -tag -width "warning"
+.It Cm syserr
+An operating system error occurred.
+There isn't necessarily anything wrong with the input files.
+Output may all the same be missing or incomplete.
+.It Cm badarg
+Invalid command line arguments were specified.
+No input files have been read and no output is produced.
.It Cm unsupp
An input file uses unsupported low-level
.Xr roff 7
@@ -826,8 +833,7 @@ Messages of the
.Cm error ,
and
.Cm unsupp
-levels except those about non-existent or unreadable input files
-are hidden unless their level, or a lower level, is requested using a
+levels are hidden unless their level, or a lower level, is requested using a
.Fl W
option or
.Fl T Cm lint
@@ -2242,6 +2248,43 @@ macro or of an undefined macro.
The macro is ignored, and its arguments are handled
as if they were a text line.
.El
+.Ss Bad command line arguments
+.Bl -ohang
+.It Sy "bad command line argument"
+The argument following one of the
+.Fl IKMmOTW
+command line options is invalid, or a
+.Ar file
+given as a command line argument cannot be opened.
+.It Sy "duplicate command line argument"
+The
+.Fl I
+command line option was specified twice.
+.It Sy "option has a superfluous value"
+An argument to the
+.Fl O
+option has a value but does not accept one.
+.It Sy "missing option value"
+An argument to the
+.Fl O
+option has no argument but requires one.
+.It Sy "bad option value"
+An argument to the
+.Fl O
+.Cm indent
+or
+.Cm width
+option has an invalid value.
+.It Sy "duplicate option value"
+The same
+.Fl O
+option is specified more than once.
+.It Sy "no such tag"
+The
+.Fl O Cm tag
+option was specified but the tag was not found in any of the displayed
+manual pages.
+.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr apropos 1 ,
.Xr man 1 ,