From a9cb6f085c5befcf0de92ba5bbf361c6e89ec0ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerard Beekmans Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 02:35:02 +0000 Subject: Spell Checks git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@445 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- appendixa/bison-desc.xml | 8 ++++---- appendixa/diffutils-desc.xml | 2 +- appendixa/flex-desc.xml | 2 +- appendixa/gcc-desc.xml | 2 +- appendixa/glibc-desc.xml | 2 +- appendixa/groff-desc.xml | 10 +++++----- appendixa/gzip-desc.xml | 4 ++-- appendixa/kbd-desc.xml | 4 ++-- appendixa/m4-desc.xml | 4 ++-- appendixa/man-desc.xml | 2 +- appendixa/nettools-desc.xml | 2 +- appendixa/procps-desc.xml | 2 +- appendixa/shadowpwd-desc.xml | 6 +++--- appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml | 2 +- appendixa/tar-desc.xml | 2 +- appendixa/utillinux-desc.xml | 10 +++++----- appendixa/vim-desc.xml | 2 +- 17 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) (limited to 'appendixa') diff --git a/appendixa/bison-desc.xml b/appendixa/bison-desc.xml index 0b2d3e302..5350da410 100644 --- a/appendixa/bison-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/bison-desc.xml @@ -12,15 +12,15 @@ The Bison package contains the bison program. Bison is a parser generator, a replacement for YACC. YACC stands for Yet Another Compiler Compiler. What is Bison then? It is a program that -generates a program that analyses the structure of a textfile. Instead +generates a program that analyzes the structure of a text file. Instead of writing the actual program a user specifies how things should be connected and with -those rules a program is constructed that analyses the textfile. +those rules a program is constructed that analyzes the text file. -There are alot of examples where structure is needed and one of them is +There are a lot of examples where structure is needed and one of them is the calculator. @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Given the string : A human can easily come to the result 7. Why? Because of the structure. Our brain knows -how to interpretet the string. The computer doesn't know that and Bison +how to interpret the string. The computer doesn't know that and Bison is a tool to help it understand by presenting the string in the following way to the compiler: diff --git a/appendixa/diffutils-desc.xml b/appendixa/diffutils-desc.xml index 5aac98b49..4344ceed0 100644 --- a/appendixa/diffutils-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/diffutils-desc.xml @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ programs have extra options which compare files in different situations. diff3 -The difference between diff and diff3 is that diff comprares 2 files, +The difference between diff and diff3 is that diff compares 2 files, diff3 compares 3 files. diff --git a/appendixa/flex-desc.xml b/appendixa/flex-desc.xml index 26fbff577..504feac53 100644 --- a/appendixa/flex-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/flex-desc.xml @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ The Flex package contains the flex program Description -Flex is a tool for generating programs which regognize patterns in text. +Flex is a tool for generating programs which recognizes patterns in text. Pattern recognition is very useful in many applications. A user sets up rules what to look for and flex will make a program that looks for those patterns. The reason people use flex is that it is much easier to set up diff --git a/appendixa/gcc-desc.xml b/appendixa/gcc-desc.xml index 504000bc4..f2223a1e2 100644 --- a/appendixa/gcc-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/gcc-desc.xml @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ of these compiler generated object files. Preprocessor -A preprocessor preprocesses a source file, such as including +A preprocessor pre-processes a source file, such as including the contents of header files into the source file. It's a good idea to not do this manually to save a lot of time. Someone just inserts a line diff --git a/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml b/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml index bf91d87e5..dace3b634 100644 --- a/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/glibc-desc.xml @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ are already present and at the disposal of the programmer. -The C library (actually almost every library) come in two flavours: +The C library (actually almost every library) come in two flavors: dynamic ones and static ones. In short when a program uses a static C library, the code from the C library will be copied into the executable file. When a program uses a dynamic library, that executable will not diff --git a/appendixa/groff-desc.xml b/appendixa/groff-desc.xml index 21629cfe5..ee7150324 100644 --- a/appendixa/groff-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/groff-desc.xml @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ grodvi is a driver for groff that produces TeX dvi format. groff is a front-end to the groff document formatting system. Normally it -runs the troff program and a postprocessor appropriate for the selected +runs the troff program and a post-processor appropriate for the selected device. @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ for an HP Laserjet 4 printer. grops -grops translates the output of GNU troff to PostScript. +grops translates the output of GNU troff to Postscript. @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ The nroff script emulates the nroff command using groff. pfbtops -pfbtops translates a PostScript font in .pfb format to ASCII. +pfbtops translates a Postscript font in .pfb format to ASCII. @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ files into commands that are understood by TeX or troff. psbb -psbb reads a file which should be a PostScript document conforming to the +psbb reads a file which should be a Postscript document conforming to the Document Structuring conventions and looks for a %%BoundingBox comment. @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ tfmtodit creates a font file for use with groff troff is highly compatible with Unix troff. Usually it should be invoked using the groff command, which will also run preprocessors and -postprocessors in the appropriate order and with the appropriate options. +post-processors in the appropriate order and with the appropriate options. diff --git a/appendixa/gzip-desc.xml b/appendixa/gzip-desc.xml index 79f52cf52..29306e927 100644 --- a/appendixa/gzip-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/gzip-desc.xml @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ zgrep invokes the grep program on compressed files. Zmore is a filter which allows examination of compressed or plain text -files one screenful at a time on a soft-copy terminal (similar to the +files one screen at a time on a soft-copy terminal (similar to the more program). @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ more program). znew -Znew recompresses files from .Z (compress) format to .gz (gzip) format. +Znew re-compresses files from .Z (compress) format to .gz (gzip) format. diff --git a/appendixa/kbd-desc.xml b/appendixa/kbd-desc.xml index ed7476542..d1eb43576 100644 --- a/appendixa/kbd-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/kbd-desc.xml @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ resizecons changes the kernel idea of the console size. screendump -A screenshot utility for the console. +A screen shot utility for the console. @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ setkeycodes loads kernel scancode-to-keycode mapping table entries. setleds -setleds sets the keyboard leds. Many people find it useful to have numlock +setleds sets the keyboard LEDs. Many people find it useful to have numlock enabled by default, and it is by using this program that you can achieve this. diff --git a/appendixa/m4-desc.xml b/appendixa/m4-desc.xml index 94f57ef58..83c01550d 100644 --- a/appendixa/m4-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/m4-desc.xml @@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ The M4 package contains the M4 processor M4 is a macro processor. It copies input to output expanding macros as it -goes. Macros are either builtin or user-defined and can take any number -of arguments. Besides just doing macro expansion m4 has builtin functions +goes. Macros are either built-in or user-defined and can take any number +of arguments. Besides just doing macro expansion m4 has built-in functions for including named files, running UNIX commands, doing integer arithmetic, manipulating text in various ways, recursion, etc. M4 can be used either as a front-end to a compiler or as a macro processor in its own right. diff --git a/appendixa/man-desc.xml b/appendixa/man-desc.xml index b79360bf7..bb42984a1 100644 --- a/appendixa/man-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/man-desc.xml @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ output. Only complete word matches are displayed. makewhatis reads all the manual pages contained in given sections of -manpath or the preformatted pages contained in the given sections of +manpath or the pre-formatted pages contained in the given sections of catpath. For each page, it writes a line in the whatis database; each line consists of the name of the page and a short description, separated by a dash. The description is extracted using the content of diff --git a/appendixa/nettools-desc.xml b/appendixa/nettools-desc.xml index c153a1e85..b0d12f9fe 100644 --- a/appendixa/nettools-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/nettools-desc.xml @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ route is the general utility which is used to manipulate the IP routing table. slattach -slattach attaches a network interface to a serial line, ie. puts a normal +slattach attaches a network interface to a serial line, i.e.. puts a normal terminal line into one of several "network" modes. diff --git a/appendixa/procps-desc.xml b/appendixa/procps-desc.xml index 8c31cbcd2..01418b7f9 100644 --- a/appendixa/procps-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/procps-desc.xml @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ their processes. watch -watch runs command repeatedly, displaying its output (the first screenfull). +watch runs command repeatedly, displaying its output (the first screen full). diff --git a/appendixa/shadowpwd-desc.xml b/appendixa/shadowpwd-desc.xml index 3eb409d27..38aca4369 100644 --- a/appendixa/shadowpwd-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/shadowpwd-desc.xml @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ the last password change. chfn -chfn changes user fullname, office number, office extension, and home +chfn changes user full name, office number, office extension, and home phone number information for a user's account. @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ input and uses this information to update a group of existing users. dpasswd -dpasswd adds, deletes, and updates dialup passwords for user login shells. +dpasswd adds, deletes, and updates dial-up passwords for user login shells. @@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ to the corresponding database file format. newusers -newusers reads a file of user name and cleartext password pairs and uses +newusers reads a file of user name and clear text password pairs and uses this information to update a group of existing users or to create new users. diff --git a/appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml b/appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml index 2cd08806f..0a58b2923 100644 --- a/appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ notified that the system is going down, and login is blocked. sulogin is invoked by init when the system goes into single user mode (this is done through an entry in /etc/inittab). Init also tries to -execute sulogin when it is passed the -b flag from the bootmonitor (eg, LILO). +execute sulogin when it is passed the -b flag from the boot loader (eg, LILO). diff --git a/appendixa/tar-desc.xml b/appendixa/tar-desc.xml index b10ef2309..cbafddad6 100644 --- a/appendixa/tar-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/tar-desc.xml @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ The tar package contains the tar and rmt programs. tar is an archiving program designed to store and extract files from -an archive file known as a tarfile. +an archive file known as a tar file. diff --git a/appendixa/utillinux-desc.xml b/appendixa/utillinux-desc.xml index cfb3143de..56fe867b8 100644 --- a/appendixa/utillinux-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/utillinux-desc.xml @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ kill sends a specified signal to the specified process. more -more is a filter for paging through text one screenful at a time. +more is a filter for paging through text one screen full at a time. @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ or soft reset). elvtune -elvtune allows to tune the I/O elevator per blockdevice queue basis. +elvtune allows to tune the I/O elevator per block device queue basis. @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ ipcrm removes a specified resource. ipcs -ipcs provides information on ipc facilities. +ipcs provides information on IPC facilities. @@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ setterm sets terminal attributes. ul -ul reads a file and translates occurences of underscores to the sequence +ul reads a file and translates occurrences of underscores to the sequence which indicates underlining for the terminal in use. @@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ swapdev queries and sets swap device. tunelp -tunelp sets various parameters for the lp device. +tunelp sets various parameters for the LP device. diff --git a/appendixa/vim-desc.xml b/appendixa/vim-desc.xml index 9ea0c2a69..9aa6c298d 100644 --- a/appendixa/vim-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/vim-desc.xml @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ ctags generate tag files for source code. etags does the same as ctags but it can generate cross reference files which list information about the various source objects found in a set -of lanugage files. +of language files. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf