Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 21:46:03 -0400 (EDT) From: sjr@home.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/13702: Manpage corrections to ASCII Message-ID: <199909120146.VAA12669@cc158233-a.catv1.md.home.com>
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>Number: 13702
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Manpage corrections to ASCII
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Sep 11 18:50:00 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Stephen J. Roznowski
>Release: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
The general consensus is that the manual pages should be
consistent in their spelling of ASCII. The attached patch
fixes this.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- games/atc/atc.6.orig Sat Sep 11 21:30:35 1999
+++ games/atc/atc.6 Sat Sep 11 21:31:09 1999
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@
It should be stressed that the terminal driver portion of the
game was designed to be reconfigurable, so the display format can vary
depending the version you are playing. The descriptions here are based
-on the ascii version
+on the ASCII version
of the game. The game rules and input format, however,
should remain consistent.
Control-L redraws the screen, should it become muddled.
@@ -150,12 +150,12 @@
the numerical altitude is a single digit, then it represents
thousands of feet.
Some distinction is made between the prop
-planes and the jets. On ascii terminals, prop planes are
+planes and the jets. On ASCII terminals, prop planes are
represented by a upper case letter, jets by a lower case letter.
.IP
Airports are shown as a number and some indication of the direction
planes must be going to land at the airport.
-On ascii terminals, this is one of '^', '>', '<', and 'v', to indicate
+On ASCII terminals, this is one of '^', '>', '<', and 'v', to indicate
north (0 degrees), east (90), west (270) and south (180), respectively.
The planes will also
take off in this direction.
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@
radar screen. Planes will enter the arena from these points without
warning. These points have a direction associated with them, and
planes will always enter the arena from this direction. On the
-ascii version of
+ASCII version of
.I atc,
this direction is not displayed. It will become apparent
what this direction is as the game progresses.
--- usr.bin/ee/ee.1.orig Sat Sep 11 21:30:35 1999
+++ usr.bin/ee/ee.1 Sat Sep 11 21:31:14 1999
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@
.It case
Make searches case sensitive.
.It character
-Display the ascii value of the character at the cursor.
+Display the ASCII value of the character at the cursor.
.It exit
Save the edited text, and leave the editor.
.It expand
--- usr.bin/file/file.1.orig Sat Sep 11 21:30:35 1999
+++ usr.bin/file/file.1 Sat Sep 11 21:31:20 1999
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
(such as
.Xr tar 1
archives) and determine whether an unknown file should be
-labelled as `ascii text' or `data'.
+labelled as `ASCII text' or `data'.
.Sh OPTIONS
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl v
--- lib/libftpio/ftpio.3.orig Sat Sep 11 21:30:35 1999
+++ lib/libftpio/ftpio.3 Sat Sep 11 21:32:39 1999
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@
pointer for the file or NULL on failure.
.Pp
.Fn ftpAscii
-sets ascii mode for the current server connection named by
+sets ASCII mode for the current server connection named by
.Fa stream .
.Pp
.Fn ftpBinary
--- libexec/getty/gettytab.5.orig Sat Sep 11 21:30:35 1999
+++ libexec/getty/gettytab.5 Sat Sep 11 21:32:45 1999
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@
will wait for the first string, and if it finds it, will send the
second, and so on.
Strings specified are separated by one or more tabs or spaces.
-Strings may contain standard ascii characters and special 'escapes',
+Strings may contain standard ASCII characters and special 'escapes',
which consist of a backslash character followed by one or more
characters which are interpreted as follows:
.Pp
--- gnu/usr.bin/gzip/gzip.1.orig Sat Sep 11 21:30:35 1999
+++ gnu/usr.bin/gzip/gzip.1 Sat Sep 11 21:33:13 1999
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-a --ascii
-Ascii text mode: convert end-of-lines using local conventions. This option
+ASCII text mode: convert end-of-lines using local conventions. This option
is supported only on some non-Unix systems. For MSDOS, CR LF is converted
to LF when compressing, and LF is converted to CR LF when decompressing.
.TP
--- usr.bin/hexdump/hexdump.1.orig Sat Sep 11 21:30:35 1999
+++ usr.bin/hexdump/hexdump.1 Sat Sep 11 21:33:38 1999
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm hexdump, hd
-.Nd ascii, decimal, hexadecimal, octal dump
+.Nd ASCII, decimal, hexadecimal, octal dump
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm hexdump
.Op Fl bcCdovx
--- share/man/man7/hier.7.orig Sat Sep 11 21:30:35 1999
+++ share/man/man7/hier.7 Sat Sep 11 21:33:50 1999
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@
.It Li examples/
various examples for users and programmers
.It Li games/
-ascii text files used by various games
+ASCII text files used by various games
.It Li groff_font/
device description file for device name
.It Li info/
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@
.It Li me/
macros for use with the me macro package
.It Li misc/
-misc system-wide ascii text files
+misc system-wide ASCII text files
.Bl -tag -width Fl -compact
.It Li fonts/
???
--- usr.sbin/kernbb/kernbb.8.orig Sat Sep 11 21:30:35 1999
+++ usr.sbin/kernbb/kernbb.8 Sat Sep 11 21:34:03 1999
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
.Fl a
option.
.Pp
-The output format is ascii, consisting of one line per record with the
+The output format is ASCII, consisting of one line per record with the
following fields: filename, linenumber, procedure, address, count
of executions, length of the basic-block in bytes and the product of
the previous two fields.
--- lib/libutil/login_times.3.orig Sat Sep 11 21:30:35 1999
+++ lib/libutil/login_times.3 Sat Sep 11 21:34:09 1999
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
.Pp
The
.Fn parse_lt
-function converts the ascii representation of a time period into
+function converts the ASCII representation of a time period into
a structure of type
.Ft login_time_t .
This is defined as:
--- usr.sbin/lpr/lpd/lpd.8.orig Sat Sep 11 21:30:35 1999
+++ usr.sbin/lpr/lpd/lpd.8 Sat Sep 11 21:34:14 1999
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@
.Xr pr 1
and the text filters.
.It I
-Indent. The number of characters to indent the output by (in ascii).
+Indent. The number of characters to indent the output by (in ASCII).
.It U
Unlink. Name of file to remove upon completion of printing.
.It N
--- usr.bin/mklocale/mklocale.1.orig Sat Sep 11 21:30:35 1999
+++ usr.bin/mklocale/mklocale.1 Sat Sep 11 21:34:24 1999
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
may be any of the following:
.Bl -tag -width 0x[0-9a-z]*
.It Ar 'x'
-The ascii character
+The ASCII character
.Ar x .
.It Ar '\ex'
The ANSI C character
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@
.Dv RUNE2
is the integer value represented by
.Dv RUNE1 .
-For example, the ascii character
+For example, the ASCII character
.Nm '0'
would map to the decimal value
.Nm 0 .
--- usr.sbin/xntpd/doc/ntpq.8.orig Sat Sep 11 21:30:35 1999
+++ usr.sbin/xntpd/doc/ntpq.8 Sat Sep 11 21:34:36 1999
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@
.It raw
Cause all output from query commands is printed as received from the
remote server. The only formating/intepretation done on the data is to
-transform nonascii data into a printable (but barely understandable)
+transform non-ASCII data into a printable (but barely understandable)
form.
.It cooked
Cause output from query commands to be
--- usr.bin/hexdump/od.1.orig Sat Sep 11 21:30:35 1999
+++ usr.bin/hexdump/od.1 Sat Sep 11 21:34:46 1999
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
.Dt OD 1
.Sh NAME
.Nm od
-.Nd octal, decimal, hex, ascii dump
+.Nd octal, decimal, hex, ASCII dump
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm od
.Op Fl aBbcDdeFfHhIiLlOovXx
--- usr.sbin/ppp/ppp.8.orig Sat Sep 11 21:30:35 1999
+++ usr.sbin/ppp/ppp.8 Sat Sep 11 21:34:53 1999
@@ -3390,7 +3390,7 @@
.Pp
When configuring
.Nm
-in this manner, it's expected that the host challenge is a series of ascii
+in this manner, it's expected that the host challenge is a series of ASCII
digits or characters. An encryption device or Secure ID card is usually
required to calculate the secret appropriate for the given challenge.
.It set authname Ar id
--- lib/libutil/property.3.orig Sat Sep 11 21:30:35 1999
+++ lib/libutil/property.3 Sat Sep 11 21:34:59 1999
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
.Nm properties_read ,
.Nm propery_find ,
.Nm properties_free
-.Nd functions to allow creating simple property lists from ascii file data.
+.Nd functions to allow creating simple property lists from ASCII file data.
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
.Fd #include <libutil.h>
--- lib/libutil/realhostname.3.orig Sat Sep 11 21:30:35 1999
+++ lib/libutil/realhostname.3 Sat Sep 11 21:35:07 1999
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
.Xr inet_ntoa 3
is used to convert
.Ar ip
-to an ascii form.
+to an ASCII form.
.Pp
If the string written to
.Ar host
--- sbin/swapon/swapon.8.orig Sat Sep 11 21:30:35 1999
+++ sbin/swapon/swapon.8 Sat Sep 11 21:35:15 1999
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
.It Pa /dev/{wd,da}?s?b
standard paging devices
.It Pa /etc/fstab
-ascii filesystem description table
+ASCII filesystem description table
.El
.Sh BUGS
There is no way to stop paging and swapping on a device.
--- lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3.orig Sat Sep 11 21:30:35 1999
+++ lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 Sat Sep 11 21:35:20 1999
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
.Pp
The
.Fn sysctlbyname
-function accepts an ascii representation of the name and internally
+function accepts an ASCII representation of the name and internally
looks up the integer name vector. Apart from that, it behaves the same
as the standard
.Fn sysctl
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