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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-09-07 16:44:39 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1998-09-07 16:44:39 +0000
commitd772ee662c59d0c57ee6ec091bcc1b5d284fb641 (patch)
tree2ba3033cb81512b9255ff0b54ad76cd667e5d2c6 /usr.bin
parent59bb7d3d2196d91e9c21929f6b0dbad6562a46b5 (diff)
More man page fixes. Particularly fix uses of it's/its, affect/effect,
then/than and such. Other miscellaneous problems fixed across these source files.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/asa/asa.14
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/gprof/gprof.14
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/mail/mail.121
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/netstat/netstat.14
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/rup/rup.14
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/sup/src/supservers.84
6 files changed, 20 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/asa/asa.1 b/usr.bin/asa/asa.1
index e992e322b43..04fc01f76ba 100644
--- a/usr.bin/asa/asa.1
+++ b/usr.bin/asa/asa.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: asa.1,v 1.3 1996/09/02 06:47:00 etheisen Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: asa.1,v 1.4 1998/09/07 16:44:33 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: asa.1,v 1.4 1995/03/26 02:25:05 glass Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Winning Strategies, Inc.
@@ -85,6 +85,6 @@ utility conforms to
.St -p1003.2-92 .
The
.Nm fpr
-utility is deprecated and it's use should be restricted.
+utility is deprecated and its use should be restricted.
.Sh AUTHORS
J.T. Conklin, Winning Strategies, Inc.
diff --git a/usr.bin/gprof/gprof.1 b/usr.bin/gprof/gprof.1
index 2c5852ac390..19746d535d7 100644
--- a/usr.bin/gprof/gprof.1
+++ b/usr.bin/gprof/gprof.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: gprof.1,v 1.7 1997/09/18 14:12:33 deraadt Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: gprof.1,v 1.8 1998/09/07 16:44:33 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: gprof.1,v 1.6 1995/11/21 22:24:55 jtc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1990, 1993
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ that are compiled for profiling.
.Nm Gprof
reads the given object file (the default is
.Pa a.out)
-and establishes the relation between it's symbol table
+and establishes the relation between its symbol table
and the call graph profile from
.Pa gmon.out .
If more than one profile file is specified,
diff --git a/usr.bin/mail/mail.1 b/usr.bin/mail/mail.1
index 6593f6b333a..0318efef180 100644
--- a/usr.bin/mail/mail.1
+++ b/usr.bin/mail/mail.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: mail.1,v 1.14 1998/09/06 22:23:17 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: mail.1,v 1.15 1998/09/07 16:44:33 aaron Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ and
.Pa /etc/mail.rc
in order unless explicitly told not to by using the
.Fl n
-option. Next, the commands in the users personal command file
+option. Next, the commands in the user's personal command file
.Pa ~/.mailrc
are executed.
.Nm mail
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ Unexamined messages go back to the post office.
option above).
.Pp
.Ss Personal and systemwide distribution lists.
-It is also possible to create a personal distribution lists so that,
+It is also possible to create personal distribution lists so that,
for instance, you can send mail to
.Dq Li cohorts
and have it go
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ On return from the editor, the message is read back in.
.Pf ( Ic ex
or
.Ic x )
-Effects an immediate return to the Shell without
+Effects an immediate return to the shell without
modifying the user's system mailbox, his
.Ar mbox
file, or his edit file in
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ a
argument is given, the previous 18\-message group is printed.
.It Ic help
A synonym for
-.Ic \&?
+.Ic \&? .
.ne li
.It Ic hold
.Pf ( Ic ho ,
@@ -524,8 +524,7 @@ option set.
Takes a message list and invokes the pager on that list.
.It Ic next
.Pq Ic n
-(
-like
+(like
.Ic \&+
or
.Tn CR )
@@ -557,8 +556,8 @@ If given while editing a
mailbox file with the
.Fl f
flag, then the edit file is rewritten.
-A return to the Shell is
-effected, unless the rewrite of edit file fails, in which case the user
+A return to the shell is
+affected, unless the rewrite of edit file fails, in which case the user
can escape with the
.Ic exit
command.
@@ -572,7 +571,7 @@ A synonym for
.Ic reply .
.It Ic retain
Add the list of header fields named to the
-.Ar retained list
+.Ar retained list .
Only the header fields in the retain list
are shown on your terminal when you print a message.
All other header fields are suppressed.
@@ -688,7 +687,7 @@ Similar to
except that
.Ic only
the message body
-.Pq Ar without
+.Po Ar without
the header) is saved.
Extremely useful for such tasks as sending and receiving source
program text over the message system.
diff --git a/usr.bin/netstat/netstat.1 b/usr.bin/netstat/netstat.1
index 3b15298ed8b..10aad49fd7f 100644
--- a/usr.bin/netstat/netstat.1
+++ b/usr.bin/netstat/netstat.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: netstat.1,v 1.10 1998/02/26 10:06:09 peter Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: netstat.1,v 1.11 1998/09/07 16:44:33 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: netstat.1,v 1.11 1995/10/03 21:42:43 thorpej Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1990, 1992, 1993
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ Unspecified,
or ``wildcard'', addresses and ports appear as ``*''.
If a local port number is registered as being in use for RPC by
.Xr portmap 8
-it's RPC service name or RPC service number will be printed in
+its RPC service name or RPC service number will be printed in
[ ] immediately after the port number.
.Pp
The interface display provides a table of cumulative
diff --git a/usr.bin/rup/rup.1 b/usr.bin/rup/rup.1
index 1734446ff31..1e2f9efacae 100644
--- a/usr.bin/rup/rup.1
+++ b/usr.bin/rup/rup.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: rup.1,v 1.2 1996/06/26 05:38:51 deraadt Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: rup.1,v 1.3 1998/09/07 16:44:33 aaron Exp $
.\" -*- nroff -*-
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ averaged over 1, 5 and 15 minutes.
The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl d
-For each host, report what it's local time is.
+For each host, report what its local time is.
This is useful for checking time synchronization on a network.
.It Fl h
Sort the display alphabetically by host name.
diff --git a/usr.bin/sup/src/supservers.8 b/usr.bin/sup/src/supservers.8
index ad775011bcb..956ad7a4b0c 100644
--- a/usr.bin/sup/src/supservers.8
+++ b/usr.bin/sup/src/supservers.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: supservers.8,v 1.4 1997/10/12 00:26:23 beck Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: supservers.8,v 1.5 1998/09/07 16:44:33 aaron Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1992 Carnegie Mellon University
.\" All Rights Reserved.
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ The -O lockdir switch is used to make
.I supfilesrv
allow only one active connection at a time from any client ip address.
This is accomplished by each serving process obtaining exclusive lock,
-and writing it's process ID into a file in "lockdir" where the filename
+and writing its process ID into a file in "lockdir" where the filename
is the dotted decimal ip address of the connecting host. Any
connections from a client where a lock can not be obtained on such a file
will be rejected, limiting any client host to one connection at a time