docs: remove obsolete and unneeded comments from man-page files

Transform some of them into copyright lines.
Also fix three header lines and snip some trailing whitespace.

Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>

5 files changed, 10 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/text-utils/hexdump.1 b/text-utils/hexdump.1
index 8237fd99e..f99276367 100644
--- a/text-utils/hexdump.1
+++ b/text-utils/hexdump.1
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"	from: @(#)hexdump.1	8.2 (Berkeley) 4/18/94
+.\"	@(#)hexdump.1	8.2 (Berkeley) 4/18/94
 .\"
 .TH HEXDUMP "1" "April 2013" "util-linux" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
diff --git a/text-utils/more.1 b/text-utils/more.1
index 589eaf711..af1fdd40f 100644
--- a/text-utils/more.1
+++ b/text-utils/more.1
@@ -32,8 +32,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"	@(#)more.1	5.15 (Berkeley) 7/29/91
 .\"
-.\" 25Dec92: Extensive changes made by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) to
-.\" conform with the more 5.19 currently in use by the Linux community.
+.\" Copyright (c) 1992 Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
 .\"
 .TH MORE "1" "February 2014" "util-linux" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
diff --git a/text-utils/pg.1 b/text-utils/pg.1
index 7431cd1aa..ad6c8e3e4 100644
--- a/text-utils/pg.1
+++ b/text-utils/pg.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" @(#)pg.1	1.7 (gritter) 4/25/01
+.\" Copyright 2001 Gunnar Ritter
 .TH PG 1 "July 2014" "util-linux" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 pg \- browse pagewise through text files
diff --git a/text-utils/rev.1 b/text-utils/rev.1
index a8945a985..d1eaed59a 100644
--- a/text-utils/rev.1
+++ b/text-utils/rev.1
@@ -29,9 +29,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"	from: @(#)rev.1	6.3 (Berkeley) 3/21/92
-.\"     Modified for Linux by Charles Hannum (mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu)
-.\"                       and Brian Koehmstedt (bpk@gnu.ai.mit.edu)
+.\"	@(#)rev.1	6.3 (Berkeley) 3/21/92
 .\"
 .TH REV "1" "September 2011" "util-linux" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
diff --git a/text-utils/tailf.1 b/text-utils/tailf.1
index bfe97bc4a..d59c5317b 100644
--- a/text-utils/tailf.1
+++ b/text-utils/tailf.1
@@ -1,16 +1,15 @@
-.\" tailf.1 -- 
-.\" Created: Thu Jan 11 16:43:10 1996 by faith@acm.org
+.\" tailf.1 -- man page for tailf
 .\" Copyright 1996, 2003 Rickard E. Faith (faith@acm.org)
-.\" 
+.\"
 .\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
 .\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
 .\" preserved on all copies.
-.\" 
+.\"
 .\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
 .\" manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the
 .\" entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
 .\" permission notice identical to this one.
-.\" 
+.\"
 .\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this
 .\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date.  The author(s) assume no
 .\" responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from
@@ -18,10 +17,10 @@
 .\" have taken the same level of care in the production of this manual,
 .\" which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working
 .\" professionally.
-.\" 
+.\"
 .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
 .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
-.\" 
+.\"
 .TH TAILF 1 "July 2014" "util-linux" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 tailf \- follow the growth of a log file