More man page fixes. Spelling, grammar, some typos. Lots of double-word

occurrences squashed as well.

25 files changed, 81 insertions, 80 deletions

diff --git a/share/man/man4/ch.4 b/share/man/man4/ch.4
index 27b491caa79..285e1fefed1 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/ch.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/ch.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: ch.4,v 1.1 1997/06/04 07:37:57 grr Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: ch.4,v 1.2 1998/09/06 22:23:19 aaron Exp $
 .\"	$FreeBSD$
 .\" Copyright (c) 1996
 .\"	Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>.  All rights reserved.
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ has included the driver).
 The following 
 .Xr ioctl 2
 call applies to the changer. It is defined in
-in the header file
+the header file
 .Em sys/chio.h.
 
 .Bl -tag -width DIOCSDINFO
diff --git a/share/man/man4/ip.4 b/share/man/man4/ip.4
index 91ae644bc5c..33c338db158 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/ip.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/ip.4
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ setsockopt(s, IPPROTO_IP, IP_MULTICAST_LOOP, &loop, sizeof(loop));
 .sp
 This option
 improves performance for applications that may have no more than one
-instance on a single host (such as a router demon), by eliminating
+instance on a single host (such as a router daemon), by eliminating
 the overhead of receiving their own transmissions.  It should generally not
 be used by applications for which there may be more than one instance on a
 single host (such as a conferencing program) or for which the sender does
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/pctr.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/pctr.4
index c37a654e4ce..2c7e407d012 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/pctr.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/pctr.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: pctr.4,v 1.8 1998/09/01 16:38:22 deraadt Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: pctr.4,v 1.9 1998/09/06 22:23:20 aaron Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Pentium performance counter driver for OpenBSD.
 .\" Copyright 1996 David Mazieres <dm@lcs.mit.edu>.
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Pentium Pro counters, as well as on some 486s and non-intel CPUs.  It
 is set to zero at boot time, and then increments with each cycle.
 Because the counter is 64-bits wide, it does not overflow.
 .Pp
-The time stamp counter can be be read directly from user-mode using
+The time stamp counter can be read directly from user-mode using
 the
 .Fn rdtsc
 macro, which returns a 64-bit value of type
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.pmax/asc.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.pmax/asc.4
index 773cb736232..5737ac1af6c 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/man4.pmax/asc.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/man4.pmax/asc.4
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
 .\"	$NetBSD: asc.4,v 1.2 1997/10/13 11:23:41 lukem Exp $
-.\"	$OpenBSD: asc.4,v 1.2 1998/03/09 15:37:17 millert Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: asc.4,v 1.3 1998/09/06 22:23:20 aaron Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd August 6, 1996
 .Dt ASC 4 pmax
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ TurboChannel SCSI adaptor
 The
 .Nm
 driver provides support for the NCR 53c94-based scsi host adaptor
-adaptor on the DECstation 5000 series, and for the PMAZ-AA and related
+on the DECstation 5000 series, and for the PMAZ-AA and related
 TurboChannel SCSI-adaptor option boards.
 The
 .Nm
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.pmax/ioasic.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.pmax/ioasic.4
index 6899f15c134..da193e87695 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/man4.pmax/ioasic.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/man4.pmax/ioasic.4
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
 .\"	$NetBSD: ioasic.4,v 1.4 1997/10/31 02:26:09 jonathan Exp $
-.\"	$OpenBSD: ioasic.4,v 1.2 1998/03/09 15:37:21 millert Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: ioasic.4,v 1.3 1998/09/06 22:23:20 aaron Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd August 6, 1996
 .Dt IOASIC 4 pmax
@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ floppy-disc drive and audio/ISDN hardware
 on the Personal DECstation and audio-equipted TC Alphas, where the 
 .Nm
 hardware provides a
-a
 scatter-gather DMA channel between he 16-bit device and the 32-bit
 .Nm tc
 DMA address space.
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.pmax/le.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.pmax/le.4
index da3369e6e3b..df027dcbc12 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/man4.pmax/le.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/man4.pmax/le.4
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
 .\"	$NetBSD: le.4,v 1.2 1997/10/31 02:53:46 jonathan Exp $
-.\"	$OpenBSD: le.4,v 1.2 1998/03/09 15:37:22 millert Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: le.4,v 1.3 1998/09/06 22:23:20 aaron Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd August 6, 1996
 .Dt LE 4 pmax
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ option card provide only an AUI port.
 .Xr arp 4 .
 .Sh BUGS
 On all front-ends, performance is impaired by hardware which forces
-forces a software copy of packets to and from DMA buffers.  The
+a software copy of packets to and from DMA buffers.  The
 .Nm ioasic
 machines  and the DECstation 3100 must 
 copying packet to and from non-contiguous DMA buffers.
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.vax/vv.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.vax/vv.4
index 679beeb1efd..6d492e5b5f6 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/man4.vax/vv.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/man4.vax/vv.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: vv.4,v 1.2 1996/03/29 10:17:43 niklas Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: vv.4,v 1.3 1998/09/06 22:23:20 aaron Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: vv.4,v 1.3 1996/03/03 17:14:18 thorpej Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ interface provides access to a 10 Mb/s Proteon
 ring network.
 .Pp
 The network address of the interface must be specified with an
-an
 .Dv SIOCSIFADDR
 .Xr ioctl 2
 before data can be transmitted or received.
diff --git a/share/man/man4/options.4 b/share/man/man4/options.4
index 22b52679690..6881d3cdeb7 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/options.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/options.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: options.4,v 1.17 1998/07/24 00:43:52 espie Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: options.4,v 1.18 1998/09/06 22:23:19 aaron Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: options.4,v 1.21 1997/06/25 03:13:00 thorpej Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1998 Theo de Raadt 
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ On the i386, this includes NetBSD 0.8's ZMAGIC format, 386BSD and BSDI's
 QMAGIC, NMAGIC, and OMAGIC a.out formats.  On the hp300 and other m68k
 architectures this permits certain old
 .Bx 4.3
-binaries to work, though it's use is discouraged now.
+binaries to work, though its use is discouraged now.
 .It Cd option COMPAT_43
 Use of this option is discouraged. It enables compatibility with
 .Bx 4.3 .
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ Adds code to the kernel that does internal consistency checks.  This
 code will cause the kernel to panic if corruption of internal data
 structures is detected.
 .It Cd option KTRACE
-Add hooks for the system call tracing facility, which allows users to
+Adds hooks for the system call tracing facility, which allows users to
 watch the system call invocation behavior of processes.  See
 .Xr ktrace 1
 for details.
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ notable performance improvements when it is used as the file store
 for
 .Pa /tmp
 or similar mount points.  Unfortunately, it is known to contain some bugs
-render it unstable, and it is not yet recommended for production.  See
+rendering it unstable, and it is not yet recommended for production.  See
 .Xr mount_mfs 8
 for details.
 .It Cd option NFS
@@ -325,7 +325,6 @@ for details.
 Includes a loopback file system in which user and group ids may be
 remapped -- this can be useful when mounting alien file systems with
 different uids and gids than the local system (eg, remote NFS).  See
-See
 .Xr mount_umap 8
 for details.
 .It Cd option UNION
@@ -384,7 +383,7 @@ routines, (a.k.a. the
 cache, though called by many other names in the kernel source).  By default,
 this cache has NPROC (set as 20 + 16 * MAXUSERS) * (80 + NPROC / 8) entries.
 A reasonable way to derive a value of NVNODE, should a large number of
-namei cache misses is noticed with a tool such as
+namei cache misses be noticed with a tool such as
 .Xr systat 1 ,
 is to examine the system's current computed value with
 .Xr sysctl 1 ,
@@ -425,7 +424,7 @@ always runs in secure level 0 mode, even when running multiuser.  See
 the manual page for
 .Xr init 8
 for details on the implications of this.  The kernel secure level may
-manipulated by the superuser by altering the
+be manipulated by the superuser by altering the
 .Em kern.securelevel
 sysctl variable. (It should be noted that the secure level may only be
 lowered by a call from process id 1, i.e.
@@ -485,7 +484,7 @@ and much of the networking code.
 Enables 
 .Em IPFORWARDING
 and (on most ports) increases the size of 
-.Em NMBCLUSTERS
+.Em NMBCLUSTERS.
 In general,
 .Em GATEWAY
 is used to indicate that a system should act as a router, and
@@ -584,7 +583,7 @@ values.  This option clamps the initial sequence number to start in
 the range 2^31 rather than the full unsigned range of 2^32.  Also, under
 .Bx 4.2 ,
 keepalive packets must contain at least one byte or else
-the remote end would not respond.
+the remote end will not respond.
 .It Cd option PFIL_HOOKS
 This option turns on the packet filter interface hooks.  See
 .Xr pfil 9
@@ -699,7 +698,7 @@ for exact default information.  Increase this value if
 .Dq mb_map full
 messages appear.
 .It Cd option NKMEMCLUSTERS=value
-Size of kernel malloc arena in CLBYTES-sized logical pages.  This area
+Size of kernel malloc area in CLBYTES-sized logical pages.  This area
 is covered by the kernel submap 
 .Em kmem_map .
 See
@@ -710,13 +709,14 @@ panics happen.
 .\" , which mean the system has run out of malloc-able kernel memory.
 .It Cd option NBUF=value
 .It Cd option BUFPAGES=value
-These option set the number of pages available for the buffer cache.
+These options set the number of pages available for the buffer cache.
 Their default value is a machine dependent value, often calculated as
 between 5% and 10% of total available RAM.
 .It Cd NTP
 Modify the scheduler code to add hooks necessary for running an NTP
 daemon.
-.Xr xntpd 8 is available as part of the port collection.
+.Xr xntpd 8
+is available as part of the port collection.
 .El
 .\" The following requests should be uncommented and used where appropriate.
 .\" .Sh FILES
diff --git a/share/man/man4/random.4 b/share/man/man4/random.4
index b32b5b5aa68..71152038f38 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/random.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/random.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: random.4,v 1.3 1997/06/25 22:28:29 angelos Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: random.4,v 1.4 1998/09/06 22:23:19 aaron Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1996, 1997 Michael Shalayeff
 .\"
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ reserved for nuclear noise generators.
 .It /dev/srandom
 strong random data.
 .It /dev/urandom
-same as above, but does not guarantees the data to be strong.
+same as above, but does not guarantee the data to be strong.
 .It /dev/prandom
 simple pseudo-random generator (as it is in the kernel).
 .It /dev/arandom
diff --git a/share/man/man4/scsi.4 b/share/man/man4/scsi.4
index 85c6cb91439..0b95f5cfd66 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/scsi.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/scsi.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: scsi.4,v 1.1 1996/08/04 20:28:20 tholo Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: scsi.4,v 1.2 1998/09/06 22:23:19 aaron Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd August 4, 1996
 .Dt SD 4
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ still be performed against the device.
 The option SCSIDEBUG enables the debug ioctl.
 .Pp
 All devices and the SCSI busses support boot time allocation so that
-an upper number of devices and controllers does not need to be configured;
+an upper number of devices and controllers do not need to be configured;
 .Em "device sd* at scsibus? target ? lun ?"
 will suffice for any number of disk drivers.
 .Pp
@@ -97,17 +97,17 @@ any, they will be attached to the appropriate drivers. The search can be
 narrowed to a specific bus, target or lun. The new device may or may not
 be related to the device on which the ioctl was performed.
 .It Dv SCIOCIDENTIFY
-Ask the driver what it's bus, target and lun are.
+Ask the driver what its bus, target and lun are.
 .It Dv SCIOCDECONFIG
 Ask the device to disappear. This may not happen if the device is in use.
 .El
 .Sh NOTES
-the generic scsi part of the system is still being mapped out.
+The generic scsi part of the system is still being mapped out.
 Watch this space for changes.
 .Pp
- A device by the name of su (scsi_user)
-(e.g  su0-0-0) will map bus, target and lun to  minor numbers. It has not
-yet decided yet whether this device will be able to open a device that is
+A device by the name of su (scsi_user)
+(e.g. su0-0-0) will map bus, target and lun to minor numbers. It has not
+yet been decided whether this device will be able to open a device that is
 already controlled by an explicit driver.
 .Sh ADAPTERS
 The system allows common device drivers to work through many different
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ some adapters, but is not yet complete for this version of the scsi system.
 When the kernel is compiled with option SCSIDEBUG, the SCIOCDEBUG ioctl 
 can be used to enable various amounts of tracing information on any 
 specific device. Devices not being traced will not produce trace information.
-The four bits that make up the debug level, each control certain types
+The four bits that make up the debug level each control certain types
 of debugging information. 
 .Bl -tag -width "Bit 0"
 .It Dv Bit 0
diff --git a/share/man/man4/spp.4 b/share/man/man4/spp.4
index 71a820339b4..b15ee8b1464 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/spp.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/spp.4
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The
 .Tn SPP
-protocol provides reliable, flow-controlled, two-way
+protocol provides a reliable, flow-controlled, two-way
 transmission of data.  It is a byte-stream protocol used to
 support the
 .Dv SOCK_STREAM
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ The
 port may still be specified
 at this time; if the port is not specified the system will assign one.
 Once a connection has been established the socket's address is
-fixed by the peer entity's location.   The address assigned the
+fixed by the peer entity's location.   The address assigned to the
 socket is the address associated with the network interface
 through which packets are being transmitted and received.  Normally
 this address corresponds to the peer entity's network.
diff --git a/share/man/man4/st.4 b/share/man/man4/st.4
index f97132956b4..d5674e99cfc 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/st.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/st.4
@@ -171,18 +171,18 @@ and before the next item after that. If the next item is a file
 mark, but it was never read, then the next process to read will
 immediately hit the file mark and receive an end-of-file notification.
 .It Fixed block-size
-Data written by the user is passed to the tape as a succession of
+data written by the user is passed to the tape as a succession of
 fixed size blocks.  It may be contiguous in memory, but it is
 considered to be a series of independent blocks. One may never
 write an amount of data that is not an exact multiple of the
 blocksize.  One may read and write the same data as a different
-set of records, In other words, blocks that were written together
+set of records. In other words, blocks that were written together
 may be read separately, and vice-versa.
 .Pp
 If one requests more blocks than remain in the file, the drive will
 encounter the file mark.  Because there is some data to return
 (unless there were no records before the file mark), the read will
-succeed, returning that data, The next read will return immediately
+succeed, returning that data. The next read will return immediately
 with an EOF.  (As above, if the file mark is never read, it remains
 for the next process to read if in no-rewind mode.)
 .El
diff --git a/share/man/man4/strip.4 b/share/man/man4/strip.4
index 70e209e79ac..d2f814ce1f5 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/strip.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/strip.4
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ route add -host 10.11.12.13 -link 1:2:3:4:5:6:7:8
 .br
 .in 5
 .Pp
-Generalising from this example to other IP addresses and to other 8-digit MAC addreses
+Generalising from this example to other IP addresses and to other 8-digit MAC addresses
 should be clear.
 .Pp
 .Sh Radio configuration.
@@ -160,9 +160,9 @@ by
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr inet 4 ,
 .Xr arp 4 ,
-.Xr route 8 .
+.Xr route 8 ,
 .Xr slip 4 ,
-.Xr slattach 8 ,
+.Xr slattach 8 .
 .Sh BUGS
 Currently is IP-only.  Encapsulations for AppleTalk and ARP have been defined,
 but are not yet implemented in this driver.
diff --git a/share/man/man4/sv.4 b/share/man/man4/sv.4
index 4764cea7c16..518ffec255f 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/sv.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/sv.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: sv.4,v 1.2 1998/08/22 02:03:04 csapuntz Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sv.4,v 1.3 1998/09/06 22:23:19 aaron Exp $
 .\" Copyright (c) 1998 Constantine Paul Sapuntzakis
 .\" All rights reserved
 .\"
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The
 .Nm
-driver provides support S3 SonicVibes (S3-617) chipset-based
+driver provides support for S3 SonicVibes (S3-617) chipset-based
 cards. Disabling the SRS 3-D spatial feature of the chip is
 recommended for higher quality audio. This can be done in software
 by issuing the 
diff --git a/share/man/man4/tcp.4 b/share/man/man4/tcp.4
index 62bb958d562..ec5a7b0ab7d 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/tcp.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/tcp.4
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The
 .Tn TCP
-protocol provides reliable, flow-controlled, two-way
+protocol provides a reliable, flow-controlled, two-way
 transmission of data.  It is a byte-stream protocol used to
 support the
 .Dv SOCK_STREAM
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ must be bound.  The
 port may still be specified
 at this time; if the port is not specified the system will assign one.
 Once a connection has been established the socket's address is
-fixed by the peer entity's location.   The address assigned the
+fixed by the peer entity's location.   The address assigned to the
 socket is the address associated with the network interface
 through which packets are being transmitted and received.  Normally
 this address corresponds to the peer entity's network.
diff --git a/share/man/man4/termios.4 b/share/man/man4/termios.4
index 9b2b2c55099..dca24ec5548 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/termios.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/termios.4
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ type a key (usually
 .Ql \&^Z )
 which generates the terminal stop signal
 .Pq Dv SIGTSTP
-and has the affect of stopping the entire job.
+and has the effect of stopping the entire job.
 The shell will notice that the job stopped, and will resume running after
 placing itself in the foreground.
 The shell also has commands for placing stopped jobs in the background,
@@ -172,7 +172,8 @@ blocking the
 process is orphaned, the
 .Xr read 2
 returns -1 with
-.Va errno set to
+.Va errno
+set to
 .Er Dv EIO
 and no
 signal is sent.  The default action of the
@@ -203,7 +204,8 @@ or blocking
 the
 .Xr write
 returns -1 with
-errno set to
+.Va errno
+set to
 .Er Dv EIO
 and no signal is sent.
 .Pp
@@ -275,7 +277,8 @@ request, and the read completes successfully, having read as
 much data as possible, the number of bytes read is returned.
 .It
 If there is no data available, the read returns -1, with
-errno set to
+.Va errno
+set to
 .Er EAGAIN .
 .El
 .Pp
@@ -365,7 +368,7 @@ granularity that is used to time out bursty and short term data
 transmissions.  If
 .Dv VMIN
 is greater than
-.Dv \&{ Dv MAX_INPUT Ns \&} ,
+.Pf \&{ Dv MAX_INPUT Ns \&} ,
 the response to the
 request is undefined.  The four possible values for
 .Dv VMIN
@@ -498,7 +501,7 @@ flag is set.  Erases the last character in the
 current line; see
 .Sx "Canonical Mode Input Processing" .
 It does not erase beyond
-the start of a line, as delimited by an
+the start of a line, as delimited by a
 .Dv NL ,
 .Dv EOF ,
 or
diff --git a/share/man/man4/tty.4 b/share/man/man4/tty.4
index c0599d2a5ce..d5edb7c40ee 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/tty.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/tty.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: tty.4,v 1.8 1998/07/10 19:23:24 deraadt Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: tty.4,v 1.9 1998/09/06 22:23:20 aaron Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: tty.4,v 1.4 1996/03/19 04:26:01 paulus Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ Clear To Send.
 .It TIOCM_CAR
 Carrier Detect.
 .It TIOCM_CD
-Carier Detect (synonym).
+Carrier Detect (synonym).
 .It TIOCM_RNG
 Ring Indication.
 .It TIOCM_RI
diff --git a/share/man/man4/tun.4 b/share/man/man4/tun.4
index f4f822a96ff..7369957721d 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/tun.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/tun.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: tun.4,v 1.4 1997/09/07 18:30:03 deraadt Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: tun.4,v 1.5 1998/09/06 22:23:20 aaron Exp $
 .Dd March 10, 1996
 .Dt TUN 4
 .Os OpenBSD 1.2
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ driver, like the
 driver, provides two interfaces: an interface like the usual facility
 it is simulating (a network interface in the case of
 .Nm tun ,
-or a terinal for
+or a terminal for
 .Nm pty ) ,
 and a character-special device
 .Dq control
diff --git a/share/man/man4/uk.4 b/share/man/man4/uk.4
index 894900de258..a19bc0b3ce6 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/uk.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/uk.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: uk.4,v 1.2 1997/05/28 22:13:30 deraadt Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: uk.4,v 1.3 1998/09/06 22:23:20 aaron Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: uk.4,v 1.3 1996/10/20 23:15:26 explorer Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1996
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ A scsi adapter must also be separately configured into the system
 before this driver makes sense.
 .Pp
 .Sh KERNEL CONFIGURATION
-If an count is given that number of
+If a count is given that number of
 .Nm 
 devices will be configured into the kernel.
 
diff --git a/share/man/man4/ym.4 b/share/man/man4/ym.4
index a9afb1fb87d..99fa155bc4e 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/ym.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/ym.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ym.4,v 1.1 1998/08/22 02:03:05 csapuntz Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ym.4,v 1.2 1998/09/06 22:23:20 aaron Exp $
 .\" Copyright (c) 1998 Constantine Paul Sapuntzakis
 .\" All rights reserved
 .\"
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The
 .Nm
-driver provides support Yamaha OPL3-SAX chipset-based cards.
+driver provides support for Yamaha OPL3-SAX chipset-based cards.
 cards. 
 
 .Sh BUGS
diff --git a/share/man/man5/a.out.5 b/share/man/man5/a.out.5
index 985a99f2025..2b0cfadbf47 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/a.out.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/a.out.5
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ The fields have the following functions:
 .Bl -tag -width a_trsize
 .It Fa a_midmag
 This field is stored in network byte-order so that binaries for
-for machines with alternate byte orders can be distinguished.
+machines with alternate byte orders can be distinguished.
 It has a number of sub-components accessed by the macros
 .Dv N_GETFLAG() ,
 .Dv N_GETMID() , and
diff --git a/share/man/man5/link.5 b/share/man/man5/link.5
index 929a421701f..52c8343ebf9 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/link.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/link.5
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ to other objects that are required to complete the link-editing process and
 indirection tables to facilitate
 .Em Position Independent Code
 (PIC for short) to improve sharing of code pages among different processes.
-The collection of data structures described here will be refered to as the
+The collection of data structures described here will be referred to as the
 .Em Run-time Relocation Section (RRS)
 and is embedded in the standard text and data segments of the dynamically
 linked program or shared object image as the existing
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ can be built by
 The compiler also includes size information of any initialized data items
 through the .size assembler directive. PIC code differs from conventional code
 in that it accesses data variables through an indirection table, the
-Global Offset Table, by convention accessable by the reserved name
+Global Offset Table, by convention accessible by the reserved name
 .Em _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ .
 The exact mechanism used for this is machine dependent, usually a machine
 register is reserved for the purpose. The rational behind this construct
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ Another reserved symbol,
 is used to indicate the presence of the run-time linker structures. Whenever
 _DYNAMIC is relocated to 0, there is no need to invoke the run-time
 link-editor. If this symbol is non-zero, it points at a data structure from
-which the location of the necessary relocation- and symbol information can
+which the location of the necessary relocation and symbol information can
 be derived. This is most notably used by the start-up module,
 .Em crt0 .
 The _DYNAMIC structure is conventionally located at the start of the data
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ segment of the image to which it pertains.
 .Sh DATA STRUCTURES
 The data structures supporting dynamic linking and run-time relocation
 reside both in the text and data segments of the image they apply to.
-The text segments contain read-only data such as symbols descriptions and
+The text segments contain read-only data such as symbol descriptions and
 names, while the data segments contain the tables that need to be modified by
 during the relocation process.
 .Pp
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ The location of the symbol table.
 Currently unused.
 .It Fa sdt_buckets
 The number of buckets in
-.Fa sdt_hash
+.Fa sdt_hash .
 .It Fa sdt_strings
 The location of the symbol string table that goes with
 .Fa sdt_nzlist .
@@ -255,12 +255,12 @@ should point at a full path name for the desired shared object.
 .It Fa sod_major
 Specifies the major version number of the shared object to load.
 .It Fa sod_minor
-Specifies the prefered minor version number of the shared object to load.
+Specifies the preferred minor version number of the shared object to load.
 .El
 .Pp
 The run-time link-editor maintains a list of structures called
 .Em link maps
-to keep track of all shared objects loaded into a process' address space.
+to keep track of all shared objects loaded into a process's address space.
 These structures are only used at run-time and do not occur within
 the text or data segment of an executable or shared library.
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ The
 .Fa sod
 structure that was responsible for loading this shared object.
 .It Fa som_sodbase
-Tossed in later versions the run-time linker.
+Tossed in later versions of the run-time linker.
 .It Fa som_write
 Set if (some portion of) this object's text segment is currently writable.
 .It Fa som_dynamic
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ The size of the data represented by this symbol.
 .El
 .Pp
 A hash table is included within the text segment of shared object to
-to facilitate quick lookup of symbols during run-time link-editing.
+facilitate quick lookup of symbols during run-time link-editing.
 The
 .Fa sdt_hash
 field of the
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ run under control of a debugger.
 .It Fa dd_sym_loaded
 Set by the run-time linker whenever it adds symbols by loading shared objects.
 .It Fa dd_bpt_addr
-The address were a breakpoint will be set by the run-time linker to
+The address where a breakpoint will be set by the run-time linker to
 divert control to the debugger. This address is determined by the start-up
 module,
 .Em crt0.o,
diff --git a/share/man/man8/compat_ibcs2.8 b/share/man/man8/compat_ibcs2.8
index aeb9c4f711b..bbda12d8426 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/compat_ibcs2.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/compat_ibcs2.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: compat_ibcs2.8,v 1.1 1998/02/09 21:58:21 deraadt Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: compat_ibcs2.8,v 1.2 1998/09/06 22:23:21 aaron Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1998 Scott Bartram
 .\" Copyright (c) 1995 Frank van der Linden
@@ -37,12 +37,12 @@
 .Os OpenBSD
 .Sh NAME
 .Nm compat_ibcs2
-.Nd setup procedure for running iBCS2 binaries
+.Nd setup procedure for running iBCS2 binaries under emulation
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Nx
+.Ox
 supports running Intel Binary Compatibilty Standard 2 (iBCS2)
 binaries.  This only applies to i386 systems for now.  Binaries
-are suported from SCO UNIX and other systems derived from UNIX
+are supported from SCO UNIX and other systems derived from UNIX
 System V Release 3. iBCS2 support is only well tested using SCO
 binaries. XENIX binaries are also supported although not as well
 tested.  SVR4 binaries are supported by the
diff --git a/share/man/man8/man8.vax/format.8 b/share/man/man8/man8.vax/format.8
index 857ed187b25..3be8ccb3a53 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/man8.vax/format.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/man8.vax/format.8
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
 .\"	from: @(#)format.8	6.6 (Berkeley) 4/20/91
-.\"	$Id: format.8,v 1.1 1995/10/18 08:44:41 deraadt Exp $
+.\"	$Id: format.8,v 1.2 1998/09/06 22:23:21 aaron Exp $
 .\"
 .TH FORMAT 8 "April 20, 1991"
 .UC 4
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ For every hundredth cylinder formatted
 .I format
 prints a message indicating the current cylinder being formatted.
 (This message is just to reassure people that nothing is
-is amiss.)
+amiss.)
 .PP
 .I Format
 uses the standard notation of the standalone I/O library
diff --git a/share/man/man9/vm_map_copy.9 b/share/man/man9/vm_map_copy.9
index db6a6507aa9..e429827cb62 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/vm_map_copy.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/vm_map_copy.9
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\" 
-.\"	$OpenBSD: vm_map_copy.9,v 1.1 1996/03/11 13:04:51 mickey Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: vm_map_copy.9,v 1.2 1998/09/06 22:23:21 aaron Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Mach Operating System
 .\" Copyright (c) 1991,1990 Carnegie Mellon University
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ KERN_SUCCESS
 Memory copied.
 .TP 25
 KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE
-Either the destination region was not 
+Either the destination region was
 not writable, or the source region was not readable.
 .TP 25
 KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS