Date: 4 Aug 1999 08:21:52 -0000 From: nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/12956: Spelling mistakes in various chapters of the handbook Message-ID: <19990804082152.61688.qmail@rucus.ru.ac.za>
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>Number: 12956
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Spelling mistakes in various chapters of the handbook
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Aug 4 01:30:00 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Neil Blakey-Milner
>Release: FreeBSD 3.0-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Rhodes University Computer Users' Society
>Environment:
FreeBSD rucus.ru.ac.za 3.0-STABLE FreeBSD 3.0-STABLE #0: Tue Feb 9 22:52:23 GMT 1999 grahams@rucus.ru.ac.za:/usr/src/sys/compile/RUCUS-SMP i386
>Description:
Whilst reading the handbook, I was struck by quite a few spelling
mistakes, so I decided to send this patch in. Does not fix
"Americanisms" or "British Englishisms", if you're worried, just
obviously incorrectly spelt words.
>How-To-Repeat:
Read the handbook, maybe passing it through ispell.
>Fix:
diff -ru handbook.orig/bibliography/chapter.sgml handbook/bibliography/chapter.sgml
--- handbook.orig/bibliography/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 21:07:08 1999
+++ handbook/bibliography/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 21:33:15 1999
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Raymond, Eric S. <emphasis>The New Hacker's Dictonary, 3rd
+ <para>Raymond, Eric S. <emphasis>The New Hacker's Dictionary, 3rd
edition</emphasis>. MIT Press, 1996. ISBN
0-262-68092-0. Also known as the <ulink
URL="http://www.ccil.org/jargon/jargon.html">Jargon
diff -ru handbook.orig/contrib/chapter.sgml handbook/contrib/chapter.sgml
--- handbook.orig/contrib/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 21:07:08 1999
+++ handbook/contrib/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 21:38:30 1999
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>Add authorization infrastructure to the kernel, to allow
different authorization policies. Part of this could be done
- by modifying <literal>suser()</literal>. Coordinatory:
+ by modifying <literal>suser()</literal>. Coordinator:
&a.eivind;</para>
</listitem>
diff -ru handbook.orig/eresources/chapter.sgml handbook/eresources/chapter.sgml
--- handbook.orig/eresources/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 21:07:08 1999
+++ handbook/eresources/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 21:59:09 1999
@@ -623,7 +623,7 @@
<para><emphasis>Documentation project</emphasis></para>
<para>This mailing list is for the discussion of issues and
- projects related to the creation of documenation for FreeBSD.
+ projects related to the creation of documentation for FreeBSD.
The members of this mailing list are collectively referred to as
“The FreeBSD Documentation Project”. It is an open
list; feel free to join and contribute!</para>
diff -ru handbook.orig/hw/chapter.sgml handbook/hw/chapter.sgml
--- handbook.orig/hw/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 21:07:07 1999
+++ handbook/hw/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 21:25:53 1999
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@
<note>
<para>There are two types of 3940 on the market—the older
- model with AIC 7880 chips on it, and hte newer one with AIC 7895
+ model with AIC 7880 chips on it, and the newer one with AIC 7895
chips. The newer model requires <ulink
url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/cam/">CAM</ulink>;
support which is not yet part of FreeBSD—you have to add it,
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@
<sect3 id="hw-networking">
<title>Networking</title>
- <para>I can recommend the Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B card first ande
+ <para>I can recommend the Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B card first and
foremost, followed by the <ulink
URL="http://www.smc.com/">SMC</ulink>; Ultra 16 controller for any
ISA application and the SMC EtherPower or Compex ENET32 cards for
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@
Zynx ZX342 or DEC DE435/450, will generally work quite well and can
frequently be found in 2-port and 4-port version (useful for
firewalls and routers), though the Pro/100MB card has the edge when
- it comes to providing the best performance with teh lower
+ it comes to providing the best performance with lower
overhead.</para>
<para>If what you're looking for is the cheapest possible solution
@@ -2926,7 +2926,7 @@
ttyA01 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on insecure
</programlisting>
- <para>Change the terminal type as approprate. For modems,
+ <para>Change the terminal type as appropriate. For modems,
<userinput>dialup</userinput> or <userinput>unknown</userinput> is
fine.</para>
</sect3>
@@ -5574,7 +5574,7 @@
various audio player software.</para>
<para>Another area where SCSI CDROM manufacturers are cutting corners is
- adhearance to the <link linkend="scsi-further-reading">SCSI
+ adherence to the <link linkend="scsi-further-reading">SCSI
specification</link>. Many SCSI CDROMs will respond to <link
linkend="scsi-rogue-devices">multiple LUNs</link> for its target
address. Known violators include the 6x Teac CD-56S 1.0D.</para>
diff -ru handbook.orig/internals/chapter.sgml handbook/internals/chapter.sgml
--- handbook.orig/internals/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 21:07:08 1999
+++ handbook/internals/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 20:12:56 1999
@@ -892,7 +892,7 @@
<row>
<entry>0x0d</entry>
<entry>read</entry>
- <entry>Termporary Register (not available on newer
+ <entry>Temporary Register (not available on newer
versions)</entry>
</row>
<row>
@@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@
<row>
<entry>0xda</entry>
<entry>read</entry>
- <entry>Termporary Register (not present in Intel
+ <entry>Temporary Register (not present in Intel
82374)</entry>
</row>
@@ -1639,15 +1639,15 @@
flags.</para>
<para>In general terms, each of the paging queues operates in a LRU
- fashion. A page is typicaly placed in a wired or active state
+ fashion. A page is typically placed in a wired or active state
initially. When wired, the page is usually associated with a page
table somewhere. The VM system ages the page by scanning pages in a
more active paging queue (LRU) in order to move them to a less-active
paging queue. Pages that get moved into the cache are still
associated with a VM object but are candidates for immediate reuse.
- Pages in the free queue are truely free. FreeBSD attempts to minimize
+ Pages in the free queue are truly free. FreeBSD attempts to minimize
the number of pages in the free queue, but a certain minimum number of
- truely free pages must be maintained in order to accomodate page
+ truly free pages must be maintained in order to accommodate page
allocation at interrupt time.</para>
<para>If a process attempts to access a page that does not exist in its
@@ -1819,7 +1819,7 @@
debugging and optimization flags with the
<literal>makeoptions</literal> directive in the kernel configuration.
Note that you should not use <option>-g</option> unless you can
- accomodate the large (typically 7 MB+) kernels that result.</para>
+ accommodate the large (typically 7 MB+) kernels that result.</para>
<programlisting>makeoptions DEBUG="-g"
makeoptions COPTFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"</programlisting>
@@ -1840,7 +1840,7 @@
lot of memory. You should also size your swap partition based on the
maximum memory configuration you ever intend to put on the machine so
you do not have to repartition your disks later on. If you want to be
- able to accomodate a crash dump, your first swap partition must be at
+ able to accommodate a crash dump, your first swap partition must be at
least as large as main memory and <filename>/var/crash</filename> must
have sufficient free space to hold the dump.</para>
diff -ru handbook.orig/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml
--- handbook.orig/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 21:07:08 1999
+++ handbook/kernelconfig/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 22:31:28 1999
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@
but is covered well in many books in the <link
linkend="bibliography">bibliography</link>. However, FreeBSD does
offer an easier editor called “ee” which, if you are a
- beginner, should be your editor of choise. Feel free to change the
+ beginner, should be your editor of choice. Feel free to change the
comment lines at the top to reflect your configuration or the changes
you have made to differentiate it from
<filename>GENERIC</filename>.</para>
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- <para>The values availible for <replaceable>cpu_type</replaceable>
+ <para>The values available for <replaceable>cpu_type</replaceable>
for Alpha systems include:</para>
<itemizedlist>
@@ -975,7 +975,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>Sets the debug level to <replaceable>N</replaceable>.
- The default value is zero, which supresses all debugging
+ The default value is zero, which suppresses all debugging
output.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
diff -ru handbook.orig/kerneldebug/chapter.sgml handbook/kerneldebug/chapter.sgml
--- handbook.orig/kerneldebug/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 21:07:09 1999
+++ handbook/kerneldebug/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 22:33:48 1999
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@
<para>If you need to do low-level debugging on your kernel, there is an
on-line debugger available called DDB. It allows to setting
- breakpoints, single-steping kernel functions, examining and changing
+ breakpoints, single-stepping kernel functions, examining and changing
kernel variables, etc. However, it cannot access kernel source files,
and only has access to the global and static symbols, not to the full
debug information like <command>kgdb</command>.</para>
diff -ru handbook.orig/l10n/chapter.sgml handbook/l10n/chapter.sgml
--- handbook.orig/l10n/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 21:07:08 1999
+++ handbook/l10n/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 22:35:36 1999
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><envar>MM_CHARSET</envar> for applications MIME chararter
+ <para><envar>MM_CHARSET</envar> for applications MIME character
set.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
diff -ru handbook.orig/linuxemu/chapter.sgml handbook/linuxemu/chapter.sgml
--- handbook.orig/linuxemu/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 21:07:08 1999
+++ handbook/linuxemu/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 22:38:48 1999
@@ -824,7 +824,7 @@
call.</para>
<para>What happens is that FreeBSD has a list of loaders, instead of a
- single loader with a failback to the <literal>#!</literal> loader for
+ single loader with a fallback to the <literal>#!</literal> loader for
running any shell interpreters or shell scripts.</para>
<para>Historically, the only loader on the UNIX platform examined the
@@ -851,7 +851,7 @@
<para>For the Linux binary emulation, FreeBSD sees the magic number as an
ELF binary (it makes no distinction between FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux, or
- any other OS which has an ELF image tpye, at this point).</para>
+ any other OS which has an ELF image type, at this point).</para>
<para>The ELF loader looks for a specialized <emphasis>brand</emphasis>,
which is a comment section in the ELF image, and which is not present on
diff -ru handbook.orig/mail/chapter.sgml handbook/mail/chapter.sgml
--- handbook.orig/mail/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 21:07:08 1999
+++ handbook/mail/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 22:40:46 1999
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/cf</userinput>
&prompt.root; <userinput>make foo.cf</userinput></screen>
- <para>If you don't have a <filename>/usr/obj</filename> hiearchy,
+ <para>If you don't have a <filename>/usr/obj</filename> hierarchy,
then:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cp foo.cf /etc/sendmail.cf</userinput></screen>
diff -ru handbook.orig/ports/chapter.sgml handbook/ports/chapter.sgml
--- handbook.orig/ports/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 21:07:09 1999
+++ handbook/ports/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 20:01:10 1999
@@ -1107,7 +1107,7 @@
<note>
<para>You should list all the files, but not the name directories,
in the list. Also, if the port creates directories for itself
- during installtion, make sure to add <literal>@dirrm</literal>
+ during installation, make sure to add <literal>@dirrm</literal>
lines as necessary to remove them when the port is
deleted.</para>
@@ -1422,7 +1422,7 @@
the first <makevar>MASTER_SITES</makevar>. This will prevent users
from getting <errorname>checksum mismatch</errorname> errors, and
also reduce the workload of maintainers of our ftp site. Also, if
- there isonly one master site for the port, it is recommended that
+ there is only one master site for the port, it is recommended that
you house a backup at your site and list it as the second
<makevar>MASTER_SITES</makevar>.</para>
@@ -1737,7 +1737,7 @@
<note>
<para>The <replaceable>lib</replaceable> part is an argument given
to <command>ldconfig -r | grep -wF</command>. There shall be no
- reqular expressions in this variable.</para>
+ regular expressions in this variable.</para>
</note>
<para>The dependency is checked twice, once from within the
@@ -2165,7 +2165,7 @@
<para>If your port needs to build slightly different versions of
packages by having a variable (for instance, resolution, or paper
size) take different values, create one subdirectory per package to
- make it easier forusers to see what to do, but try to share as many
+ make it easier for users to see what to do, but try to share as many
files as possible between ports. Typically you only need a very short
<filename>Makefile</filename> in all but one of the directories if you
use variables cleverly. In the sole <filename>Makefiles</filename>,
@@ -2206,7 +2206,7 @@
<para>(<filename>xdvi240/Makefile</filename> and
<filename>xdvi400/Makefile</filename> are similar). The
<makevar>MASTERDIR</makevar> definition tells
- <filename>bsd.port.mk</filename> that the refulat set of
+ <filename>bsd.port.mk</filename> that the regular set of
subdirectories like <makevar>PATCHDIR</makevar> and
<makevar>PKGDIR</makevar> are to be found under
<filename>xdvi300</filename>. The <literal>RESOLUTION=118</literal>
@@ -3021,7 +3021,7 @@
place that is guaranteed to be writable during the port build (see
<link linkend="ports-cd">compiling ports from CDROM</link> for an
example of building ports from a read-only tree). If you need to
- modigy some file in <makevar>PKGDIR</makevar>, do so by <link
+ modify some file in <makevar>PKGDIR</makevar>, do so by <link
linkend="porting-pkgsubdir">redefining a variable</link>, not by
writing over it.</para>
</sect3>
@@ -3657,7 +3657,7 @@
<command>configure</command>, do not take the diffs of
<command>configure</command> (it often grows to a few thousand
lines!); define <literal>USE_AUTOCONF=yes</literal> and take the
- diffsof <filename>configure.in</filename>.</para>
+ diffs of <filename>configure.in</filename>.</para>
<para>Also, if you had to delete a file, then you can do it in the
<maketarget>post-extract</maketarget> target rather than as part of
@@ -3752,7 +3752,7 @@
lib/X11/oneko/pixmaps/cat.xpm
lib/X11/oneko/sounds/cat.au
:
-@dirrm lib/X11/oneko/pixmals
+@dirrm lib/X11/oneko/pixmaps
@dirrm lib/X11/oneko/sounds
@dirrm lib/X11/oneko</programlisting>
@@ -4213,8 +4213,8 @@
<title>Categories</title>
<para>As you already know, ports are classified in several categories.
- But for this to wor, it is important that porters and users understand
- what each category and how we deicde what to put in each
+ But for this to work, it is important that porters and users understand
+ what each category and how we decide what to put in each
category.</para>
<sect3>
@@ -4369,7 +4369,7 @@
<row>
<entry><filename>java</filename></entry>
- <entry>Java languge support.</entry>
+ <entry>Java language support.</entry>
</row>
<row>
@@ -4589,7 +4589,7 @@
<para>As many of the categories overlap, you often have to choose
which of the categories should be the primary category of your port.
- There are several rules that govern this usse. Here is the list of
+ There are several rules that govern this issue. Here is the list of
priorities, in decreasing order of precedence.</para>
<itemizedlist>
diff -ru handbook.orig/ppp-and-slip/chapter.sgml handbook/ppp-and-slip/chapter.sgml
--- handbook.orig/ppp-and-slip/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 21:07:09 1999
+++ handbook/ppp-and-slip/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 22:46:17 1999
@@ -545,12 +545,12 @@
role="ipaddr">10.0.0.1</hostid>. Do not use
<literal>0.0.0.0</literal> as the first argument to
<command>set ifaddr</command> as it prevents PPP from setting
- up an intial route in <option>-auto</option> mode.</para>
+ up an initial route in <option>-auto</option> mode.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
- <para>If you are running version 1.x of PPP, uou will also need to
+ <para>If you are running version 1.x of PPP, you will also need to
create an entry in <filename>/etc/ppp/ppp.linkup</filename>.
<filename>ppp.linkup</filename> is used after a connection has been
established. At this point, <command>ppp</command> will know what
@@ -623,7 +623,7 @@
<para>When you configure <command>ppp</command> to receive incoming
calls on a machine connected to a LAN, you must decide if you wish
to forward packets to the LAN. If you do, you should allocate the
- peer an IP number from your LAN's subet, and use the command
+ peer an IP number from your LAN's subnet, and use the command
<programlisting>
enable proxy</programlisting>
@@ -888,7 +888,7 @@
</sect5>
<sect5>
- <title>MS extentions</title>
+ <title>MS extensions</title>
<para>It is possible to configure PPP to supply DNS and NetBIOS
nameserver addresses on demand.</para>
@@ -913,7 +913,7 @@
server addresses, and a netbios nameserver host.</para>
<para>In version 2 and above, if the <literal>set dns</literal>
- line is ommitted, PPP will use the values found in
+ line is omitted, PPP will use the values found in
<filename>/etc/resolv.conf</filename>.</para>
</sect5>
</sect4>
diff -ru handbook.orig/printing/chapter.sgml handbook/printing/chapter.sgml
--- handbook.orig/printing/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 21:07:07 1999
+++ handbook/printing/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 22:53:15 1999
@@ -3469,7 +3469,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Install an alternative to LPD, such as LPDng or PLP. Section
+ <para>Install an alternative to LPD, such as LPRng or PLP. Section
<link linkend="printing-lpd-alternatives">Alternatives to the
Standard Spooler</link> tells more about other spooling
software you can substitute for LPD.</para>
@@ -4661,4 +4661,5 @@
sgml-parent-document: ("../handbook.sgml" "part" "chapter")
End:
-->
+
diff -ru handbook.orig/security/chapter.sgml handbook/security/chapter.sgml
--- handbook.orig/security/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 21:07:08 1999
+++ handbook/security/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 19:59:46 1999
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@
trusted machine. There is a Java S/Key <command>key</command> applet,
<ulink URL="http://www.cs.umd.edu/~harry/jotp/src.html">The Java OTP
Calculator</ulink>, that you can download and run locally on any
- Java supporting brower.</para>
+ Java supporting browser.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
diff -ru handbook.orig/serialcomms/chapter.sgml handbook/serialcomms/chapter.sgml
--- handbook.orig/serialcomms/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 21:07:08 1999
+++ handbook/serialcomms/chapter.sgml Tue Aug 3 22:57:33 1999
@@ -939,7 +939,7 @@
16-character buffer, so use 16550A's if possible). Because
single-character-buffer devices require more work by the operating
system than the 16-character-buffer devices, 16550A-based serial
- interface cards are much prefered. If the system has many active
+ interface cards are much preferred. If the system has many active
serial ports or will have a heavy load, 16550A-based cards are
better for low-error-rate communications.</para>
</sect3>
@@ -2056,7 +2056,7 @@
<para>If your computer complains about the error, but boots anyway,
then you do not have to do anything special. (One machine with a
- Phoneix BIOS that I have here merely says <errorname>Keyboard
+ Phoenix BIOS that I have here merely says <errorname>Keyboard
failed</errorname> then continues to boot normally.)</para>
<para>If your computer refuses to boot without a keyboard attached
@@ -2230,11 +2230,11 @@
<note>
<para>Due to space constraints in the current version of the
boot blocks, the <option>-P</option> option is capable of
- detecing extended keyboards only. Keyboards with less
+ detecting extended keyboards only. Keyboards with less
than 101 keys (and without F11 and F12 keys) may not be
detected. Keyboards on some laptop computers may not be
properly found because of this limitation. If this is to
- be the case with your system, you have to abondan using
+ be the case with your system, you have to abandon using
the <option>-P</option> option. Unfortunately there is no
workaround for this problem.</para>
</note>
@@ -2271,7 +2271,7 @@
Keyboard: no</screen>
<para>The second line appears only if you put <option>-P</option> in
- <filename>/boot.config</filename> and indicates presense/absence
+ <filename>/boot.config</filename> and indicates presence/absence
of the keyboard. These messages go to either serial or internal
console, or both, depending on the option in
<filename>/boot.config</filename>.</para>
@@ -2683,7 +2683,7 @@
<para>At the moment, the boot loader has no option equivalent to the
<option>-P</option> option in the boot block, and there is no
provision to automatically select the internal console and the
- serial console based on the presense of the keyboard.</para>
+ serial console based on the presence of the keyboard.</para>
</note>
</sect3>
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