From 9188be09b0e1249350f775c2751be38ca52ceb0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Stjernholm <mast@lysator.liu.se>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:02:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Documented -rl. Some small tweaks.

Rev: man/pike.1:1.26
---
 man/pike.1 | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/pike.1 b/man/pike.1
index 9f8ec78ef4..9f3bb5fa2c 100644
--- a/man/pike.1
+++ b/man/pike.1
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-.\" $Id: pike.1,v 1.25 2005/07/22 20:31:03 nilsson Exp $
+.\" $Id: pike.1,v 1.26 2008/07/31 18:02:28 mast Exp $
 .\" name section last-modified title section-name product/status architecture
 .ds ]L Pike
-.TH pike 1 "$Date: 2005/07/22 20:31:03 $" Pike "Pike Manual" Pike
-.\" On Solaris ]L will contain "Last modified $Date: 2005/07/22 20:31:03 $"
+.TH pike 1 "$Date: 2008/07/31 18:02:28 $" Pike "Pike Manual" Pike
+.\" On Solaris ]L will contain "Last modified $Date: 2008/07/31 18:02:28 $"
 .\" while HPUX uses ]L to contain "Pike".
 .\" On OSF/1 ]L will already contain the wanted string.
-.if !\*(]LPike .ds ]L $Date: 2005/07/22 20:31:03 $ \" Solaris nroff
+.if !\*(]LPike .ds ]L $Date: 2008/07/31 18:02:28 $ \" Solaris nroff
 .\" Major (mj) and minor (mn) version of Pike
 .nr mj 7
 .nr mn 7
@@ -119,6 +119,19 @@ Turn on runtime checking of arguments to function calls, and soft casts.
 Turn on
 .B #pragma strict_types
 for all files.
+.TP
+.B \-rl
+.B Windows only:
+Enable Windows error dialogs when dll files cannot be loaded.
+
+It is common that Pike has modules which are linked to dll files that
+are not available in all installations. Therefore these error dialogs
+are disabled by default so that Pike does not hang on them when
+attempting to load certain modules.
+
+However, the error dialogs are the only way to see which dll's that
+could not be loaded, so this option may be necessary to find out why a
+certain module does not load.
 .LP
 The following options are supported by the default master program:
 .TP
@@ -215,22 +228,22 @@ to the script.
 .LP
 If no script is specified, pike will start in interactive- (Hilfe) mode.
 .SH REGISTRY KEYS
-On NT, Pike is affected by the following keys in the registry:
+On Windows, Pike is affected by the following keys in the registry:
 
 .B HKEY_CURRENT_USER\eSoftware\ePike\e\n(mj.\n(mn\ePIKE_MASTER
 .B HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\eSoftware\ePike\e\n(mj.\n(mn\ePIKE_MASTER
 .RS
 Specifies the name of the master program (overridden by
-.BI \-m master_program
-).
+.BR \-m ).
+If these keys are not set (the default), then Pike finds the master
+by relative path from pike.exe.
 .RE
 .SH ENVIRONMENT
 Pike is affected by the following environment variables:
 .TP
 .B PIKE_MASTER
 Specifies the name of the master program (overridden by
-.BI \-m master_program
-).
+.BR \-m ).
 .LP
 Depending on operating system Pike may be affected by the following
 environment variables:
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