From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Aug 4 1:30:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A08AE1531E for ; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 01:30:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id BAA84024; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 01:30:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 66C3C15395 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 01:21:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 61689 invoked by uid 1003); 4 Aug 1999 08:21:52 -0000 Message-Id: <19990804082152.61688.qmail@rucus.ru.ac.za> Date: 4 Aug 1999 08:21:52 -0000 From: nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za Reply-To: nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 Subject: docs/12956: Spelling mistakes in various chapters of the handbook Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >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 @@ - Raymond, Eric S. The New Hacker's Dictonary, 3rd + Raymond, Eric S. The New Hacker's Dictionary, 3rd edition. MIT Press, 1996. ISBN 0-262-68092-0. Also known as the 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 @@ Add authorization infrastructure to the kernel, to allow different authorization policies. Part of this could be done - by modifying suser(). Coordinatory: + by modifying suser(). Coordinator: &a.eivind; 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 @@ Documentation project 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! 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 @@ 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 CAM support which is not yet part of FreeBSD—you have to add it, @@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ Networking - I can recommend the Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B card first ande + I can recommend the Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B card first and foremost, followed by the SMC 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. If what you're looking for is the cheapest possible solution @@ -2926,7 +2926,7 @@ ttyA01 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on insecure - Change the terminal type as approprate. For modems, + Change the terminal type as appropriate. For modems, dialup or unknown is fine. @@ -5574,7 +5574,7 @@ various audio player software. Another area where SCSI CDROM manufacturers are cutting corners is - adhearance to the SCSI + adherence to the SCSI specification. Many SCSI CDROMs will respond to multiple LUNs for its target address. Known violators include the 6x Teac CD-56S 1.0D. 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 @@ 0x0d read - Termporary Register (not available on newer + Temporary Register (not available on newer versions) @@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@ 0xda read - Termporary Register (not present in Intel + Temporary Register (not present in Intel 82374) @@ -1639,15 +1639,15 @@ flags. 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. If a process attempts to access a page that does not exist in its @@ -1819,7 +1819,7 @@ debugging and optimization flags with the makeoptions directive in the kernel configuration. Note that you should not use unless you can - accomodate the large (typically 7 MB+) kernels that result. + accommodate the large (typically 7 MB+) kernels that result. makeoptions DEBUG="-g" makeoptions COPTFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" @@ -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 /var/crash must have sufficient free space to hold the dump. 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 bibliography. 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 GENERIC. @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ - The values availible for cpu_type + The values available for cpu_type for Alpha systems include: @@ -975,7 +975,7 @@ Sets the debug level to N. - The default value is zero, which supresses all debugging + The default value is zero, which suppresses all debugging output. 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 @@ 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 kgdb. 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 @@ - MM_CHARSET for applications MIME chararter + MM_CHARSET for applications MIME character set. 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. What happens is that FreeBSD has a list of loaders, instead of a - single loader with a failback to the #! loader for + single loader with a fallback to the #! loader for running any shell interpreters or shell scripts. Historically, the only loader on the UNIX platform examined the @@ -851,7 +851,7 @@ 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). + any other OS which has an ELF image type, at this point). The ELF loader looks for a specialized brand, 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 @@ &prompt.root; cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/cf &prompt.root; make foo.cf - If you don't have a /usr/obj hiearchy, + If you don't have a /usr/obj hierarchy, then: &prompt.root; cp foo.cf /etc/sendmail.cf 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 @@ 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 @dirrm + during installation, make sure to add @dirrm lines as necessary to remove them when the port is deleted. @@ -1422,7 +1422,7 @@ the first MASTER_SITES. This will prevent users from getting checksum mismatch 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 MASTER_SITES. @@ -1737,7 +1737,7 @@ The lib part is an argument given to ldconfig -r | grep -wF. There shall be no - reqular expressions in this variable. + regular expressions in this variable. The dependency is checked twice, once from within the @@ -2165,7 +2165,7 @@ 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 Makefile in all but one of the directories if you use variables cleverly. In the sole Makefiles, @@ -2206,7 +2206,7 @@ (xdvi240/Makefile and xdvi400/Makefile are similar). The MASTERDIR definition tells - bsd.port.mk that the refulat set of + bsd.port.mk that the regular set of subdirectories like PATCHDIR and PKGDIR are to be found under xdvi300. The RESOLUTION=118 @@ -3021,7 +3021,7 @@ place that is guaranteed to be writable during the port build (see compiling ports from CDROM for an example of building ports from a read-only tree). If you need to - modigy some file in PKGDIR, do so by PKGDIR, do so by redefining a variable, not by writing over it. @@ -3657,7 +3657,7 @@ configure, do not take the diffs of configure (it often grows to a few thousand lines!); define USE_AUTOCONF=yes and take the - diffsof configure.in. + diffs of configure.in. Also, if you had to delete a file, then you can do it in the post-extract 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 @@ -4213,8 +4213,8 @@ Categories 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. @@ -4369,7 +4369,7 @@ java - Java languge support. + Java language support. @@ -4589,7 +4589,7 @@ 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. 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. Do not use 0.0.0.0 as the first argument to set ifaddr as it prevents PPP from setting - up an intial route in mode. + up an initial route in mode. - If you are running version 1.x of PPP, uou will also need to + If you are running version 1.x of PPP, you will also need to create an entry in /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup. ppp.linkup is used after a connection has been established. At this point, ppp will know what @@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ When you configure ppp 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 enable proxy @@ -888,7 +888,7 @@ - MS extentions + MS extensions It is possible to configure PPP to supply DNS and NetBIOS nameserver addresses on demand. @@ -913,7 +913,7 @@ server addresses, and a netbios nameserver host. In version 2 and above, if the set dns - line is ommitted, PPP will use the values found in + line is omitted, PPP will use the values found in /etc/resolv.conf. 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 @@ - Install an alternative to LPD, such as LPDng or PLP. Section + Install an alternative to LPD, such as LPRng or PLP. Section Alternatives to the Standard Spooler tells more about other spooling software you can substitute for LPD. @@ -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 key applet, The Java OTP Calculator, that you can download and run locally on any - Java supporting brower. + Java supporting browser. 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. @@ -2056,7 +2056,7 @@ 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 Keyboard + Phoenix BIOS that I have here merely says Keyboard failed then continues to boot normally.) If your computer refuses to boot without a keyboard attached @@ -2230,11 +2230,11 @@ Due to space constraints in the current version of the boot blocks, the 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. Unfortunately there is no workaround for this problem. @@ -2271,7 +2271,7 @@ Keyboard: no The second line appears only if you put in - /boot.config and indicates presense/absence + /boot.config and indicates presence/absence of the keyboard. These messages go to either serial or internal console, or both, depending on the option in /boot.config. @@ -2683,7 +2683,7 @@ At the moment, the boot loader has no option equivalent to the 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. + serial console based on the presence of the keyboard. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message