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Douglas Gilbert

rename testing directory to ttesting to avoid clash with cmake's CTEST that creates a Testing directory

06 май 2026, 06:33

06 май 2026, 06:334427a17

Various html files used to be included in this directory but they were
beginning to bloat the size of the source tarball so they have been
removed in version 1.24 .

Here are the urls of the files that were previously here plus a brief
summary:

https://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg3_utils.html
https://doug-gilbert.github.io/sg3_utils.html
    - overview and examples of utilities in this package

https://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg_dd.html
    - discussion and examples of the sg_dd utility which is a dd variant
      (also discusses the sgm_dd, sgp_dd and sg_read utilities)

https://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg_ses.html
https://doug-gilbert.github.io/sg_ses.html
    - discussion and examples of the sg_ses utility. SCSI Enclosure
      Services (SES) devices may contain a lot of information,
      structured in a non-trivial way.

https://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg_io.html
    - discussion of Linux SG_IO ioctl (SCSI pass-through)

https://sg.danny.cz/sg/tools.html
    - overview of around 25 storage and SCSI tools

Many of those pages are also found at: https://doug-gilbert.github.io/


There are two versions of sg_scan: one for Linux and the other for Windows.
They have different man pages: sg_scan.8.linux and sg_scan.8.win32 with
the Makefile logic (rule in Makefile.am) copying the appropriate one to
sg_scan.8 . sg_scan is not supported for other ports.

To view the manpage in this directory (rather than the installed one, if
the package is installed) use, for example:
    man ./sg3_utils.8

Syntax checking
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Use 'mandoc -W style {man_page} > /dev/null'

The: 'cannot parse date, using it verbatim: TH February 2019' warning
can be ignored.

Douglas Gilbert
5th May 2026