Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 13:00:26 GMT From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/69225: PATCH-Serial comms chapter has wrong acronym for Transmit Data Message-ID: <200407181300.i6ID0QXA032696@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/69225; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/69225: PATCH-Serial comms chapter has wrong acronym for Transmit Data Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 14:54:39 +0200 On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 12:00:52PM +0000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2004-07-17 22:40, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > > --- /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms/chapter.sgml Sat Jul 17 06:22:19 2004 > > +++ chapter.sgml Sat Jul 17 22:37:04 2004 > > @@ -978,11 +978,11 @@ > > > > <itemizedlist> > > <listitem> > > - <para>Transmitted Data (<acronym>SD</acronym>)</para> > > + <para>Transmit Data (<acronym>TD</acronym>)</para> > > </listitem> > > Actually, the LED that shows transmit line activity in my modem is > labelled "SD". Perhaps, we should change the description text to "Sent > Data" instead? > SD is on the modem, the text is talking about a RS232 cable: "A standard RS-232C serial cable should suffice as long as all of the normal signals are wired:" I'd change SD for TD which is the correct term in our case (or TxD, but in this case RD must be changed for RxD). TD is the data transmitted by the DTE (our computer) to the DCE (modem), RD is data to DTE from DCE. These descriptions come from a time where half duplex was common. s/Transmitted/Transmit/ etc. is not mandatory, in fact both versions are used. So I'd keep the description but I'd s/SD/TD which is correct. Marc
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