Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 00:24:07 -0700 (PDT) From: "Peter J. Avalos" <pavalos@theshell.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/28906: [PATCH] Typos in en-handbook/serialcomms Message-ID: <200107120724.f6C7O7u67001@oxygen.theshell.com>
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>Number: 28906
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [PATCH] Typos in en-handbook/serialcomms
>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: Thu Jul 12 00:30:02 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Peter J. Avalos
>Release: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD oxygen.theshell.com 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #0: Tue Jul 10 11:41:59 PDT 2001 support@oxygen.theshell.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/OXYGEN i386
>Description:
Spelling and grammar errors in serialcomms chapter of handbook
>How-To-Repeat:
Read the serialcomms chapter of handbook
>Fix:
Index: chapter.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms/chapter.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -r1.24 chapter.sgml
--- chapter.sgml 2001/04/17 01:37:48 1.24
+++ chapter.sgml 2001/07/12 07:13:32
@@ -1190,7 +1190,7 @@
prompt. If the data rates do not match, <command>getty</command> sees
anything the user types as <quote>junk</quote>, tries going to the next
speed and gives the <prompt>login:</prompt> prompt again. This
- procedure can continue ad nauseum, but normally only takes a keystroke
+ procedure can continue ad nauseam, but normally only takes a keystroke
or two before the user sees a good prompt. Obviously, this login
sequence does not look as clean as the former
<quote>locked-speed</quote> method, but a user on a low-speed
@@ -1992,12 +1992,12 @@
<sect2 id="serialconsole-intro">
<title>Introduction</title>
- <para>The FreeBSD/i386 operating system can boot on a system with only
+ <para>The FreeBSD/i386 operating system can boot on a system with only
a dumb terminal on a serial port as a console. Such a configuration
- should be useful for two classes of people; system administrators who
- wish to install FreeBSD on a dedicated file/compute/terminal server
- machines that have no keyboard or monitor attached, and developers who
- want to debug the kernel or device drivers.</para>
+ should be useful for two classes of people: system administrators who
+ wish to install FreeBSD on machines that have no keyboard or monitor
+ attached, and developers who want to debug the kernel or device
+ drivers.</para>
<para>Starting from version 3.1, FreeBSD/i386 employs a three stage
bootstrap. The first two stages are in the boot block code which is
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