Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 15:51:48 -0700 (PDT) From: josh@quick.net To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: docs/6880: man 4 corrections Message-ID: <199806062251.PAA02518@newport-1-12.quick.net>
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>Number: 6880
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: man 4 corrections
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Jun 6 16:00:01 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Josh Gilliam
>Organization:
>Release: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386
>Environment:
src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/ahc.4 1.10
src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/alog.4 1.3
src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/apm.4 1.7
src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/ar.4 1.7
src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/asc.4 1.6
src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/ed.4 1.11
src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/gsc.4 1.8
src/contrib/ipfilter/man/ipf.4 1.1.1.4
src/contrib/ipfilter/man/ipnat.4 1.1.1.3
src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/keyboard.4 1.13
src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/labpc.4 1.4
src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/meteor.4 1.6
src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/sb.4 1.2
src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/screen.4 1.9
src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/sea.4 1.6
src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/si.4 1.12
src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/sio.4 1.26
src/share/man/man4/smp.4 1.3
src/share/man/man4/sppp.4 1.5
src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/sr.4 1.8
src/share/man/man4/termios.4 1.6
src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/tx.4 1.3
src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/wd.4 1.8
src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/wl.4 1.3
src/share/man/man4/worm.4 1.15
>Description:
Spelling corrections.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/ahc.4~ Tue Apr 28 01:28:50 1998
+++ src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/ahc.4 Fri Jun 5 11:32:30 1998
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
and to increase throughput.
Tagged queueing can have a significant impact on performance for seek
bound applications and should be enabled for most configurations.
-Unfortunantly, some devices that claim to support tagged queueing fail
+Unfortunately, some devices that claim to support tagged queueing fail
miserable when it is used.
The only reason tagged queueing remains as a controller option is as a
stop gap measure until a mechanism to detect these broken devices and to
--- src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/alog.4~ Tue Apr 28 01:28:50 1998
+++ src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/alog.4 Fri Jun 5 11:49:45 1998
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
On the \fIAIO8-P\fP, interrupt driven conversion (the only type
supported by the
.Nm
-driver) is facilitated through 8253 timer #2. In order for interrrupts to
+driver) is facilitated through 8253 timer #2. In order for interrupts to
be generated you must connect line 6 to line 24 (counter 2 output to
interrupt input) and line 23 to line 29 (counter 2 gate to +5VDC).
The design of the \fIAIO8-P\fP precludes the use of programmable
--- src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/apm.4~ Tue Feb 24 22:45:34 1998
+++ src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/apm.4 Fri Jun 5 11:46:06 1998
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
a risk by using this interface. (The reason this isn't a problem for
MS-windows is that they use the real-mode interface.) If you see any
weird behaviour from your system with this code in use, unplug the
-power and batteries ASAP, if not imidiately, and disable this code.
+power and batteries ASAP, if not immediately, and disable this code.
.Pp
We are very interested in getting this code working, so please send you
observations of any anormalous behaviour to us.
--- src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/ar.4~ Tue Apr 28 01:28:50 1998
+++ src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/ar.4 Fri Jun 5 11:27:13 1998
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
.Nm ar
.Nd
synchronous Arnet device driver.
-.Sh SYNOPSYS
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "device ar0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 iomem 0xd0000 vector arintr"
.Cd "device ar1 at isa? port 0x310 net irq 11 iomem 0xd0000 vector arintr"
.Pp
--- src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/asc.4~ Sat Feb 22 05:25:13 1997
+++ src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/asc.4 Fri Jun 5 11:29:38 1998
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
.Em not
reset when the device is opened or closed.
.Pp
-Similarily, requests that read a value do not report the value that is
+Similarly, requests that read a value do not report the value that is
used for the ongoing scan process. The values needed during the scan
process are saved when it starts and thus are not accessed by
.Fn ioctl
--- src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/ed.4~ Tue Apr 28 01:28:50 1998
+++ src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/ed.4 Fri Jun 5 11:34:25 1998
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
driver provides support for 8 and 16bit ISA ethernet cards that are based on
the National Semiconductor DS8390 and similar NICs manufactured by other companies.
.Pp
-It supports all 80x3 series ISA ethernet cards manufatured by Western Digital and SMC,
+It supports all 80x3 series ISA ethernet cards manufactured by Western Digital and SMC,
the SMC Ultra, the 3Com 3c503, the Novell NE1000/NE2000, and HP PC Lan+.
.Pp
The
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
.Pp
The
.Em flags
-are a bit field, and are summerized as follows:
+are a bit field, and are summarized as follows:
.Pp
.Bl -hang -offset indent
.It Em 0x01
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@
.El
.Sh CAVEATS
Early revision DS8390 chips have problems. They lock up whenever the receive
-ring-buffer overflows. They occassionally switch the byte order
+ring-buffer overflows. They occasionally switch the byte order
of the length field in the packet ring header (several different causes
of this related to an off-by-one byte alignment) - resulting in "NIC
memory corrupt - invalid packet length" messages. The card is reset
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@
dropped packets during heavy network traffic.
.Pp
16bit Compex cards identify themselves as being 8bit. While these cards will
-work in 8bit mode, much higher performance can be acheived by specifying
+work in 8bit mode, much higher performance can be achieved by specifying
.Em "flags 0x04"
(force 16bit mode) in your kernel config file. In addition, you should also specify
.Em "iosize 16384"
--- src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/gsc.4~ Tue Apr 28 01:28:51 1998
+++ src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/gsc.4 Fri Jun 5 11:30:51 1998
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
.Em pnm
mode since the driver must know at what time the
'end-of-file' shall be reached. With this feature you are able to
-directly copy the scanner output into a pbm file whith
+directly copy the scanner output into a pbm file with
.Xr cat .
Of course you can obtain a similar effect by using
.Xr dd 1
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@
a limit on the amount of lines scannable after the first read
operation. When the limit is reached read will return 0. However, the
device is turned off only when a close is performed (either
-explicitely or implicitely on exit of the calling process).
+explicitly or implicitly on exit of the calling process).
.It GSC_GHEIGHT int
Get the current height of the bitmap.
.It GSC_SBLEN int
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@
for the new selections to take effect. Consequently, the selections
are not reset when you close or open the device.
.Pp
-Similarily, requests that read a value do not report the value that is
+Similarly, requests that read a value do not report the value that is
used for the ongoing scan process. The values needed during the scan
process are saved when it starts and thus are not accessed by ioctl
requests.
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@
.It Pa /dev/gsc0d
device node for
.Em raw
-output emiting
+output emitting
.Em debug
messages if the
GSCDEBUG option was given at compile time, has minor number 32.
--- src/contrib/ipfilter/man/ipf.4~ Tue Apr 28 01:23:37 1998
+++ src/contrib/ipfilter/man/ipf.4 Fri Jun 5 11:48:45 1998
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@
and FR_OUTQUE (see above).
\fBGeneral Logging Flags\fP
-There are two flags which can be set to log packets independantly of the
+There are two flags which can be set to log packets independently of the
rules used. These allow for packets which are either passed or blocked
to be logged. To set (and clear)/get these flags, two ioctls are
provided:
--- src/contrib/ipfilter/man/ipnat.4~ Tue Apr 28 01:23:43 1998
+++ src/contrib/ipfilter/man/ipnat.4 Fri Jun 5 11:52:18 1998
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
(i.e., /dev/ipl).
.LP
.PP
-The strcture used with the NAT interface is described below:
+The structure used with the NAT interface is described below:
.LP
.nf
typedef struct ipnat {
--- src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/keyboard.4~ Tue Apr 28 01:28:53 1998
+++ src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/keyboard.4 Fri Jun 5 11:50:47 1998
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
---- ------------------------------------------------------
0x1E 'a' 'A' 0x01 0x01 'a' 'A' 0x01 0x01
-This is the default mapping for the key labelled 'A' wich normally has
+This is the default mapping for the key labelled 'A' which normally has
scancode 0x1E. The eight states is as shown, giving the 'A' key its
normal behavior.
The spcl field is used to give the key "special" treatment, and is
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
The array keydef should contain the new string to be used (MAXFK long),
and the length should be entered in flen.
-The GETFKEY ioctl call works in a semilar manner, execpt it returns
+The GETFKEY ioctl call works in a similar manner, execpt it returns
the current setting of keynum.
The function keys are numbered like this:
--- src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/labpc.4~ Thu Mar 6 18:49:48 1997
+++ src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/labpc.4 Fri Jun 5 11:41:00 1998
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
into the supported gain array, with one gain for each channel.
.Pp
AD_GAINS_GET takes an array of NCHANS (returned by AD_NCHANS_GET)
-integers and returns the cuurrent board gains.
+integers and returns the current board gains.
.Sh BUGS
In general, only those capabilities that I needed are present. In
particular the following notable restrictions are present.
--- src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/meteor.4~ Fri Mar 21 12:13:50 1997
+++ src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/meteor.4 Fri Jun 5 11:40:00 1998
@@ -516,7 +516,7 @@
invalid meteor_geomet structure pointer, rows, columns,
frames were invalid.
.It Dv ENOMEM
-could not allocate the contigous block.
+could not allocate the contiguous block.
.El
.in -0.5i
.Pp
--- src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/sb.4~ Tue Apr 28 01:28:56 1998
+++ src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/sb.4 Fri Jun 5 11:25:56 1998
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
.\" Copyright (c) 1997, Alex Zepeda.
.\"
.\" This documentation is public domain, and is provided without warranty.
-.\" Alex Zepeda, the "author" of this page is not resposible for any
+.\" Alex Zepeda, the "author" of this page is not responsible for any
.\" consequences of any sort of manipulation of this document.
.\"
.\" SoundBlaster and any phrases including it's name are copyright
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
.Os FreeBSD
.Sh NAME
.Nm sb
-.Nd Creative Labs Sound Blaster and compatable device driver
+.Nd Creative Labs Sound Blaster and compatible device driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
For all sound cards supported with the sb driver this is needed:
.Cd controller snd0
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
This driver covers the SoundBlaster family of cards including the
SoundBlaster 1.0 to the SoundBlaster 16/SoundBlaster 32. The awe driver
-provides AWE32/64 functionality. This driver is provied in FreeBSD
+provides AWE32/64 functionality. This driver is provided in FreeBSD
versions 2.0-current through 3.0-current. You can also configure more
then one card on a single DMA using the conflicts keyword in your
configuration file. This is useful for boards with more then one type of
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
.An Hannu Savolainen .
The SoundBlaster 16 DSP code was written by
.An J. Schuber Aq jsb@sth.ruhr-uni-bochum.de .
-Improvments to the OPL-3 drivers were made by
+Improvements to the OPL-3 drivers were made by
.An Rob Hooft Aq hooft@chem.ruu.nl .
.Sh HISTORY
Sound Galaxy NX Pro support added by Hunyue Yau (Jan 6 1994). MV
--- src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/screen.4~ Tue Apr 28 01:28:56 1998
+++ src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/screen.4 Fri Jun 5 11:35:52 1998
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
.Ar virtual consoles
are obtained through the device files
ttyv0 - ttyvb in /dev.
-Each of these files correspond to a seperate
+Each of these files correspond to a separate
virtual console.
All virtual console devices can be open at once, but only one is
active at a time. The active virtual console "owns" the keyboard and
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
then enter a decimal number from 0-255 via the numerical keypad, then
release ALT. The entered value is then used as the ASCII value for one
character. This way it is possible to enter any ASCII value.
-The console driver also includes a history function. It is activatet by
+The console driver also includes a history function. It is activated by
pressing the scroll-lock key. This holds the display, and enables the cursor
arrows for scrolling up and down through the last scrolled out lines.
--- src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/sea.4~ Sat Feb 22 05:25:40 1997
+++ src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/sea.4 Fri Jun 5 11:37:53 1998
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
.Pp
Another problem is the floppy adapter on ST02 which could not be
disabled by jumpers. The ST02 adapter it the best as a cheap solution
-for atttaching the tape and CD-ROM drives, and an extra floppy controller
+for attaching the tape and CD-ROM drives, and an extra floppy controller
is just a headache. There exist a simple workaround: cutting off
the AEN signal (A11 contact on ISA connector). AEN then goes high and
disables the floppy adapter port address decoder.
--- src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/si.4~ Tue Apr 28 01:28:58 1998
+++ src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/si.4 Fri Jun 5 11:42:01 1998
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
.Xr comcontrol 8
utility for configuring drain-on-close timeouts.
.Pp
-The driver also devines 3 sysctl variables that can be manipulated:
+The driver also defines 3 sysctl variables that can be manipulated:
machdep.si_debug sets the debug level for the whole driver. It depends
on the driver being compiled with SI_DEBUG. machdep.si_pollrate
sets how often per second the driver polls for lost interrupts.
--- src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/sio.4~ Tue Jun 2 00:57:51 1998
+++ src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/sio.4 Fri Jun 5 11:55:18 1998
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
Shared IRQs on different cards are not supported.
Frequently 4 ports share 1 IRQ; some 8 port cards have 2 groups of 4 ports,
thus using 2 IRQs.
-Some cards allow the first 2 serial ports to have seperate IRQs per port
+Some cards allow the first 2 serial ports to have separate IRQs per port
(as per DOS PC standard).
.Pp
Some cards have an IRQ control register for each group.
--- src/share/man/man4/smp.4~ Tue Apr 28 01:29:02 1998
+++ src/share/man/man4/smp.4 Fri Jun 5 11:47:36 1998
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
-kernel impliments symmetric multiprocessor support.
+kernel implements symmetric multiprocessor support.
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
The
--- src/share/man/man4/sppp.4~ Tue Apr 28 01:29:02 1998
+++ src/share/man/man4/sppp.4 Fri Jun 5 11:53:26 1998
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm sppp
-.Nd point to point protocol network layer for synchronuous lines
+.Nd point to point protocol network layer for synchronous lines
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "pseudo-device sppp" Op Ar count
.Sh DESCRIPTION
--- src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/sr.4~ Tue Apr 28 01:28:58 1998
+++ src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/sr.4 Fri Jun 5 11:28:40 1998
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
.Sh NAME
.Nm sr
.Nd synchronous RISCom/N2 / WANic 400/405 device driver.
-.Sh SYNOPSYS
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "device sr0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 iomem 0xd0000 vector srintr"
.Cd "device sr1 at isa? port 0x310 net irq 11 flags 0x1 iomem 0xd0000 vector srintr"
.Pp
@@ -76,9 +76,9 @@
.It Em 0x01
The card has only one port.
.It Em 0x10
-Use sepperate external clocks for transmit and receive on port 0.
+Use separate external clocks for transmit and receive on port 0.
.It Em 0x40
-Use sepperate external clocks for transmit and receive on port 1.
+Use separate external clocks for transmit and receive on port 1.
.El
.Pp
.Sh NUMBERING
--- src/share/man/man4/termios.4~ Mon Mar 17 23:17:22 1997
+++ src/share/man/man4/termios.4 Fri Jun 5 11:54:20 1998
@@ -646,7 +646,7 @@
As a special case in this second algorithm, the first previous
non-whitespace character is skipped in determining
whether the preceding word is a sequence of
-alphabetic/undercores. This sounds confusing but turns
+alphabetic/underscores. This sounds confusing but turns
out to be quite practical.
.It Dv REPRINT
Special character on input and is recognized if the
--- src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/tx.4~ Tue Feb 24 22:45:34 1998
+++ src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/tx.4 Fri Jun 5 11:43:00 1998
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
.It "tx%d: PCI fatal error occured (%s)"
One of following errors occured: PCI Target Abort, PCI Master Abort, Data
Parity Error or Address Parity Error. Device and driver reset follows this error.
-.It "tx%d: WARNING! no link estabilished"
+.It "tx%d: WARNING! no link established"
No media connected. Displayed at startup only.
.It "tx%d: cannot allocate mbuf header/cluster"
Cannot allocate memory for received packet. Packet througth away.
--- src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/wd.4~ Tue Apr 28 01:29:01 1998
+++ src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/wd.4 Fri Jun 5 11:38:38 1998
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
.It 0x8000
Test and use the 32bit transfer capability of the drive.
.It 0x4000
-If drive looks like it's comming out of sleep mode, assume it's
+If drive looks like it's coming out of sleep mode, assume it's
confused and reinitialize it.
.It 0x2000
Probe for and use the bus-mastering DMA capabilities of modern
--- src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/wl.4~ Tue Apr 28 01:29:01 1998
+++ src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/wl.4 Fri Jun 5 11:44:54 1998
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
This card can talk to the companion (wlp0) pccard. Speeds vary
from 1 megabit to theoretically 2 megabits (roughly T1 in speed).
.Pp
-The card has 3 fundmental hardware
+The card has 3 fundamental hardware
units, a so-called PSA or programmable storage area, a radio modem,
and a ethernet lan controller. The latter component is the
ancient (and not very honorable) Intel 82586 ethernet chip.
--- src/share/man/man4/worm.4~ Tue Apr 28 01:29:02 1998
+++ src/share/man/man4/worm.4 Fri Jun 5 11:37:00 1998
@@ -401,12 +401,12 @@
The driver should include all the functionality of the
.Xr cd 4
driver. No strategy for implementing this kind of interaction has
-been designed yet, altough it's now finally possible to at least
+been designed yet, although it's now finally possible to at least
read CD-ROM media through it.
.Pp
The first
.Em Unit Attention
-conditition after a media change is often not yet caught, although
+condition after a media change is often not yet caught, although
the driver was designed to catch it. This can royally screw a user
of the driver, thus make sure to manually catch it before actually
starting a burn. This can be done for example with a dummy
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