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                      7: .TH DMESG 8 "June 24, 1990"
                      8: .UC 4
                      9: .SH NAME
                     10: dmesg \- collect system diagnostic messages to form error log
                     11: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     12: .B dmesg
                     13: [ \- ]
                     14: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     15: .B N.B.:
                     16: .I Dmesg
                     17: is obsoleted by
                     18: .IR syslogd (8)
                     19: for maintenance of the system error log.
                     20: .PP
                     21: .I Dmesg
                     22: looks in a system buffer for recently printed diagnostic messages
                     23: and prints them on the standard output.
                     24: The messages are those printed or logged
                     25: by the system when errors occur.
                     26: If the
                     27: .B \-
                     28: flag is given, then
                     29: .I dmesg
                     30: computes (incrementally) the new messages since the last time it
                     31: was run and places these on the standard output.
                     32: .SH FILES
                     33: .ta 2i
                     34: /var/log/msgbuf        scratch file for memory of \- option
                     35: .SH SEE ALSO
                     36: syslogd(8)

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