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.\" $Id$
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
-.\" Copyright (c) 2012 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
+.\" Copyright (c) 2012, 2014 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
@@ -524,6 +524,9 @@ fields are omitted when meaningless.
.Pp
Message levels have the following meanings:
.Bl -tag -width "warning"
+.It Cm syserr
+Opening or reading an input file failed, so the parser cannot
+even be started and no output is produced from that input file.
.It Cm fatal
The parser is unable to parse a given input file at all.
No formatted output is produced from that input file.
@@ -559,8 +562,7 @@ output mode.
The
.Nm
utility may also print messages related to invalid command line arguments
-or operating system errors, for example when memory is exhausted or
-input files cannot be read.
+or operating system errors, for example when memory is exhausted.
Such messages may not carry the prefix described above.
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
This section summarises