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Random man page:  diskinfo(1m) -- describe characteristics of a disk device
The diskinfo command determines whether the character special file named by character_devicefile is associated with a SCSI or floppy disk drive. If so, diskinfo summarizes the disk's characteristics. The diskinfo command displays information about the following characteristics of disk drives: Vendor name Manufacturer of the drive (SCSI only) Product ID Product identification number or ASCII name ...
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In order to make fetch (the FreeBSD downloading tool) ask for
username/password when it encounter a password-protected web page, you can set
the environment variable HTTP_AUTH to 'basic:*'.
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