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: