Subject: misc/19700: multiple typos in the NetBSD on-line manual (section 1)
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <sobrado@acm.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 01/05/2003 11:25:21
>Number: 19700
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: multiple typos in the NetBSD on-line manual (section 1)
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: misc-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sun Jan 05 11:26:00 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Igor Sobrado
>Release: 1.6
>Organization:
University of Oviedo
>Environment:
NetBSD ns1.localnet 1.6 NetBSD 1.6 (GENERIC) #0: Sun Sep 8 19:43:40 UTC 2002
autobuild@tgm.daemon.org:/autobuild/i386/OBJ/autobuild/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
>Description:
There are some possible typos in the next man pages. I did my best
to check those man pages with the most recent releases of the
NetBSD's cvstree but I failed with some pages:
addr2line(1) - consise (concise)
ld(1) - relocateable (relocatable), Trys to creates
nm(1) - posix?
objcopy(1) - eg.
c++(1) - memoizes?
cc(1) - uniquize, consth, DG/UX (DG-UX?),
intercallability (intercalability)
crunchgen(1) - progams' (programs')
bc(1) - bessel (Bessel), environent (environment),
specifing (specifying)
awk(1) - AWK (awk)
send-pr(1) - acknowledgent (acknowledgement)
ld.aout_so(1) - programatically (programmatically)
audioplay(1) - mulaw (mu-law), ulaw (u-law), alaw (a-law), ulinear
crontab(1) - SVR3 (SVr3)
error(1) - users's (users')
join(1) - shellscripts (shell scripts?)
ldd(1) - depedencies (dependencies)
m4(1) - translit (?)
sort(1) - compatiblity (compatibility), 60Mb (60MB?)
sysstat(1) - refreshs (refreshes), reactived (reactivated?),
intransit (in-transit)
tn3270(1) - IBM VM/CMS (IBM-VM/CMS, see PR about RFC1060),
IBM 3270 (IBM-3270), IBM 4994 (IBM-4994)
ed(1) - refering (referring)
kf(1) - securly (securely)
klist(1) - crential, charcted, princial (principal)
ssh-agent(1) - evalled (evaluated)
dig (featurism, trunc)
dtmfdecode(1) - charcters (characters)
lp(1) - SVR4 (SVr4)
pkg_add(1) - maintainance (maintenance), procedes (proceeds)
pkg_delete(1) - packges (packages)
tfmtodit(1) - Metafont (METAFONT)
(see http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/abcde.html#mfbk)
>How-To-Repeat:
Reading the man pages.
>Fix:
Those problems can be fixed in the man pages source code.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: