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authorMark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org>2001-11-07 15:42:16 +0000
committerMark Hymers <markh@linuxfromscratch.org>2001-11-07 15:42:16 +0000
commit51c0c60367a904ef697910020a7180764d2694b0 (patch)
treed370f153ea882ab255c3f015a041278746cc4577 /appendixa
parent8f98b45c4b3a40197c2d1cc32eb6816053b51728 (diff)
fix typos
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1338 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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-rw-r--r--appendixa/bison-desc.xml2
-rw-r--r--appendixa/findutils-desc.xml4
-rw-r--r--appendixa/introduction.xml2
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/appendixa/bison-desc.xml b/appendixa/bison-desc.xml
index f360f9fbd..7f379cbfe 100644
--- a/appendixa/bison-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/bison-desc.xml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ the next thing that the computer sees is the result of 2*3 and the
number 1 which are joined by the add symbol. Adding 1 to the previous
result makes 7. In calculating the most complex calculations can be
broken down in this tree format and the computer just starts at the
-bottom and works it's way up to the top and comes with the correct
+bottom and works its way up to the top and comes with the correct
answer. Of course, Bison isn't only used for calculators alone.</para>
</sect2>
diff --git a/appendixa/findutils-desc.xml b/appendixa/findutils-desc.xml
index 342f96585..ffd0611e8 100644
--- a/appendixa/findutils-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/findutils-desc.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ databases.</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>find</title>
<para>The find program searches for files in a directory hierarchy which match
a certain criteria. If no criteria is given, it lists all files in the
-current directory and it's subdirectories.</para></sect3>
+current directory and its subdirectories.</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>frcode</title>
<para>updatedb runs a program called frcode to compress the list of file names
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ fairly up-to-date else it will provide out-of-date information.</para></sect3>
file system (including other file system that are currently mounted
unless it is told not to do so) and puts every directory and file it finds
into the database that's used by the locate program which retrieves this
-information. It's a good practice to update this database once a day to
+information. It's good practice to update this database once a day to
have it up-to-date whenever it is needed.</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>xargs</title>
diff --git a/appendixa/introduction.xml b/appendixa/introduction.xml
index 0d572c7b3..0214e633d 100644
--- a/appendixa/introduction.xml
+++ b/appendixa/introduction.xml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ that is installed in this book:</para>
chapter 5 and chapter 6.</para>
<para>Most information about these packages (especially the descriptions of
-then) come from the man pages from those packages. We are not going to print
+them) come from the man pages from those packages. We are not going to print
the entire man page, just the core elements to make it possible to
understand what a program does. To get knowledge of all details on a program,
we suggest you start by reading the complete man page in addition to