Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:04:05 -0800 (PST) From: bobj@atlantic.net To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/16288: Typos from FreeBSD Handbook, Chapter 3. Message-ID: <20000122030405.836AC150B2@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 16288 >Category: docs >Synopsis: Typos from FreeBSD Handbook, Chapter 3. >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: Fri Jan 21 19:10:01 PST 2000 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Bob Johnson >Release: Handbook at http://www.freebsd.org as of 21 JAN 00 >Organization: >Environment: N/A >Description: Noticed the following typos in Chapter 3 of Handbook. URL references are to web pages on which the typos are found in the on-line version. http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/basics.html "These manuals can be view with the man command." should be "These manuals can be viewed with the man command." I.e. "view" should be "viewed". Same page, i.e. http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/basics.html "So, you are looking at all those fancy commands in /usr/bin but do not even have the faintest idea what most of them actually do?" I think "even have" should be "have even", so it reads "So, you are looking at all those fancy commands in /usr/bin but do not have even the faintest idea what most of them actually do?" I am not comfortable breaking up the phrase "do not have" by putting a modifier in the middle of it, particularly since the modifier "even" actually seems to modify the next phrase("the slightest idea"), rather than the phrase it now appears in. The author's intent may be different than my interpretation, though, so there is room for argument here. >How-To-Repeat: View the referenced URLs. >Fix: Implement my changes suggested above if you agree with them. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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