rewrite the text describing the "address" parameter into something

easier to read;

diff --git a/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 b/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8
index 990bb43..e238814 100644 (file)
--- a/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8
+++ b/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $OpenBSD: ifconfig.8,v 1.372 2021/04/12 03:17:57 kn Exp $
+.\"    $OpenBSD: ifconfig.8,v 1.373 2021/04/17 06:01:49 jmc Exp $
 .\"    $NetBSD: ifconfig.8,v 1.11 1996/01/04 21:27:29 pk Exp $
 .\"     $FreeBSD: ifconfig.8,v 1.16 1998/02/01 07:03:29 steve Exp $
 .\"
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"     @(#)ifconfig.8 8.4 (Berkeley) 6/1/94
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: April 12 2021 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: April 17 2021 $
 .Dt IFCONFIG 8
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -116,14 +116,12 @@ supported are
 and
 .Dq inet6 .
 .It Ar address
-Internet version 4 and 6 addresses
-take the form of
-a host name present in the host name database,
-.Xr hosts 5 ;
-.Dq dot
-notation (IPv4);
-colon-separated (IPv6);
-or CIDR notation.
+An Internet version 4 or 6 address.
+Valid formats are dot notation (IPv4),
+colon-separated (IPv6),
+CIDR notation,
+or a host name present in the host name database,
+.Xr hosts 5 .
 .It Ar dest_address
 Specify the address of the correspondent on the other end
 of a point-to-point link.