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-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/atalk.44
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/bridge.44
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/ec.44
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/ef.44
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/ifmedia.44
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/ipsec.44
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/man4.atari/floppy.42
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/man4.hppa/lpt.44
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/man4.i386/speaker.44
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/man4.sparc/spif.44
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/man4.vax/dmv.44
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/man4.vax/ex.44
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/man4.vax/uda.46
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/pciide.44
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/raid.48
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/route.44
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/sppp.44
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/tl.46
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/tun.44
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/tx.46
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/we.48
-rw-r--r--share/man/man5/a.out.54
-rw-r--r--share/man/man8/compat_ultrix.84
-rw-r--r--share/man/man8/dhcp.82
-rw-r--r--share/man/man8/man8.i386/MAKEDEV.84
-rw-r--r--share/man/man8/man8.vax/installboot.84
-rw-r--r--share/man/man8/ssl.82
-rw-r--r--share/man/man8/yp.84
-rw-r--r--share/man/man9/malloc.94
29 files changed, 62 insertions, 62 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/atalk.4 b/share/man/man4/atalk.4
index 0fa680a54da..8c609dd0f96 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/atalk.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/atalk.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: atalk.4,v 1.5 1999/07/24 06:37:59 deraadt Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: atalk.4,v 1.6 1999/09/23 04:12:04 alex Exp $
.\"
.\" This file is derived from the atalk.4 man page in the Netatlk 1.4b2
.\" distribution. That distribution is covered by the following copyright:
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ AppleTalk Remote Access
.Pq Tn ARA
or
.Tn PPP
-). Currently, this AppleTalk implementataion supports only
+). Currently, this AppleTalk implementation supports only
Ethernet.
.\" and Token Ring?
.Pp
diff --git a/share/man/man4/bridge.4 b/share/man/man4/bridge.4
index 55fbb8782be..0b7999ebf4a 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/bridge.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/bridge.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: bridge.4,v 1.12 1999/09/03 12:47:12 jason Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: bridge.4,v 1.13 1999/09/23 04:12:04 alex Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1999 Jason L. Wright (jason@thought.net)
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ or the utility
.Xr brconfig 8 .
When a frame comes in, the origin segment and the source address are
recorded.
-If the bridge has no knowlege about where the destination is to be found,
+If the bridge has no knowledge about where the destination is to be found,
the bridge will forward the frame to all attached segments.
If the destination is known to be on a different segment from its origin, the
bridge will forward the packet only to the destination segment.
diff --git a/share/man/man4/ec.4 b/share/man/man4/ec.4
index 83b145a2b4d..4fd21d568a1 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/ec.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/ec.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ec.4,v 1.6 1999/08/04 17:18:45 deraadt Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ec.4,v 1.7 1999/09/23 04:12:04 alex Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: ec.4,v 1.4 1998/08/09 00:39:02 thorpej Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ drivers.
.Pp
The Etherlink II supports two media types on a single card. All support
the AUI media type. The other media is either BNC or UTP behind a
-transciever. Software cannot differentiate between BNC and UTP cards.
+transceiver. Software cannot differentiate between BNC and UTP cards.
.Pp
The following media types and options (as given to
.Xr ifconfig 8 )
diff --git a/share/man/man4/ef.4 b/share/man/man4/ef.4
index a5b26be9daa..8470dc162f1 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/ef.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/ef.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ef.4,v 1.3 1999/08/06 18:33:31 jason Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ef.4,v 1.4 1999/09/23 04:12:04 alex Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Jason L. Wright (jason@thought.net)
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ For more information on configuring this device, see
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
.Bl -diag
.It "ef%d: adapter failure (%x)"
-A fatal error during receive or transmit has occured.
+A fatal error during receive or transmit has occurred.
.It "ef%d: eeprom failed to come ready"
When reading/writing the EEPROM, the busy bit failed to clear.
This may indicate a hardware problem.
diff --git a/share/man/man4/ifmedia.4 b/share/man/man4/ifmedia.4
index aea99e63d8b..d76dd79005c 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/ifmedia.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/ifmedia.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ifmedia.4,v 1.4 1999/07/07 15:02:01 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ifmedia.4,v 1.5 1999/09/23 04:12:04 alex Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: ifmedia.4,v 1.1 1998/08/09 00:37:17 thorpej Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1998 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ The first name in the list is the canonical name of the media type or
option. Additional names are acceptable aliases for the media type or
option.
.Sh COMMON MEDIA TYPES AND OPTIONS
-The followng media types are shared by all link types:
+The following media types are shared by all link types:
.Bl -tag -offset indent -width IFM_MANUAL
.It Dv IFM_AUTO
Autoselect the best media. [autoselect, auto]
diff --git a/share/man/man4/ipsec.4 b/share/man/man4/ipsec.4
index 6e705b8e2d4..f3d8f5f9c5a 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/ipsec.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/ipsec.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ipsec.4,v 1.23 1999/08/26 12:52:15 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ipsec.4,v 1.24 1999/09/23 04:12:04 alex Exp $
.\" Copyright 1997 Niels Provos <provos@physnet.uni-hamburg.de>
.\" All rights reserved.
.\"
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ Specifies the use of encryption in tunnel mode.
.El
.Pp
For each of the categories there are five possible levels which
-specify the security policy to use in that catagory:
+specify the security policy to use in that category:
.Bl -tag -width IPSEC_LEVEL_REQUIRE
.It IPSEC_LEVEL_BYPASS
Bypass the default system security policy. This option can only be used
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.atari/floppy.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.atari/floppy.4
index 3de66431461..58540deb2c6 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/man4.atari/floppy.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/man4.atari/floppy.4
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ floppy interface
This is an interface to the buildin and external floppy drives on the Atari.
Currently, there is no disklabel support for the floppy drives. Instead, the
floppy interface uses the partition number embedded in the minor device number
-to distinguise between various floppy formats.
+to distinguish between various floppy formats.
.Pp
Currently, the following formats are supported:
.Bl -column header Partition Size sides tracks sectors/track
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.hppa/lpt.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.hppa/lpt.4
index 28e770e1491..9d11f4b7eae 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/man4.hppa/lpt.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/man4.hppa/lpt.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: lpt.4,v 1.3 1999/06/05 13:18:40 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: lpt.4,v 1.4 1999/09/23 04:12:05 alex Exp $
.\"
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1999 Michael Shalayeff
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ PC parallel ports.
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
-driver was originally developped by William F. Jolitz, TeleMuse.
+driver was originally developed by William F. Jolitz, TeleMuse.
The implementation for hppa port is using MI implementation of this
driver and first appeared in
.Ox 2.4 .
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/speaker.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/speaker.4
index 449e6b2c808..4a11de9cfbf 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/speaker.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/speaker.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: speaker.4,v 1.7 1999/07/09 13:35:44 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: speaker.4,v 1.8 1999/09/23 04:12:06 alex Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: speaker.4,v 1.9 1998/08/18 08:16:56 augustss Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Christopher G. Demetriou
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ locking is disabled for one letter note following by >, < and O[0123456].
< -- drop the current octave down one.
.Pp
N <n> -- play note n, n being 1 to 84 or 0 for a rest of current time value.
-May be followedv by sustain dots.
+May be followed by sustain dots.
.Pp
L <n> -- sets the current time value for notes. The default is L4, quarter
notes. The lowest possible value is 1; values up to 64 are accepted. L1 sets
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.sparc/spif.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.sparc/spif.4
index 6fd861c1cac..094be1f2328 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/man4.sparc/spif.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/man4.sparc/spif.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: spif.4,v 1.3 1999/07/09 13:35:42 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: spif.4,v 1.4 1999/09/23 04:12:06 alex Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1999 Jason L. Wright (jason@thought.net)
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ well as automatic hardware (RTS/CTS) flow control.
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
.Bl -diag
.It "spif%d: ccr timeout"
-A timeout occured while writing to one of the CD180 registers.
+A timeout occurred while writing to one of the CD180 registers.
.It "stty%d-%d: fifo overflow"
Incoming characters were discarded because the driver's interrupt
routine could not read them fast enough from the card.
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.vax/dmv.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.vax/dmv.4
index a4368e4423d..e1f1fe3beea 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/man4.vax/dmv.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/man4.vax/dmv.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: dmv.4,v 1.4 1999/06/05 13:18:37 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: dmv.4,v 1.5 1999/09/23 04:12:06 alex Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: dmv.4,v 1.3 1996/03/03 17:13:25 thorpej Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1988, 1991 Regents of the University of California.
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ An input packet was received which contained a type of
address unknown to the driver.
.Pp
.It "dmvxint: dmv%d unallocated packet 0x%x."
-A protocol error has occured with the board.
+A protocol error has occurred with the board.
.Pp
.It "dmvoutput, dmv%d can't handle af%d."
A packet for an unsupported address family has been sent.
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.vax/ex.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.vax/ex.4
index 629ae2cace3..872b6c22bf9 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/man4.vax/ex.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/man4.vax/ex.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ex.4,v 1.4 1999/06/05 13:18:38 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ex.4,v 1.5 1999/09/23 04:12:06 alex Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: ex.4,v 1.3 1996/03/03 17:13:33 thorpej Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1986, 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ autoconfiguration.
There was a failure in allocating unibus resources for the device.
.Pp
.It "ex%d: configuration failed; cc = %x."
-The hardware indicated an error when trying to initalize itself.
+The hardware indicated an error when trying to initialize itself.
The error code returned is described at length in the device
Reference Manual.
.Pp
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.vax/uda.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.vax/uda.4
index 664c6c8cd50..ab8d6bdf8c3 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/man4.vax/uda.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/man4.vax/uda.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: uda.4,v 1.4 1999/06/05 13:18:39 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: uda.4,v 1.5 1999/09/23 04:12:06 alex Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: uda.4,v 1.3 1996/03/03 17:14:10 thorpej Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1987, 1991 Regents of the University of California.
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ The controller did not initialise within ten seconds. A hardware
problem, but it sometimes goes away if you try again.
.Pp
.It uda%d: init failed, sa=%b
-The controller refused to initalise.
+The controller refused to initialise.
.Pp
.It uda%d: controller hung
The controller never finished initialisation. Retrying may sometimes
@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ never uses compare operations.
Something went wrong reading or writing a data sector. A `forced
error' is a software-asserted error used to mark a sector that contains
suspect data. Rewriting the sector will clear the forced error. This
-is normally set only during bad block replacment, and the driver does
+is normally set only during bad block replacement, and the driver does
no bad block replacement, so these should not occur. A `header
compare' error probably means the block is shot. A `sync timeout'
presumably has something to do with sector synchronisation.
diff --git a/share/man/man4/pciide.4 b/share/man/man4/pciide.4
index f64e457faec..13b4fb48417 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/pciide.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/pciide.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: pciide.4,v 1.1 1999/07/22 15:41:57 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: pciide.4,v 1.2 1999/09/23 04:12:04 alex Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: pciide.4,v 1.8 1999/03/16 01:19:17 garbled Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Manuel Bouyer.
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Silicon Integrated System 5597/5598 IDE controller
VIA Technologies VT82C586 and VT82C586A IDE controllers
.El
.Pp
-Some of these contollers are only available in multifunction PCI chips.
+Some of these controllers are only available in multifunction PCI chips.
.Pp
The 0x0001 flag forces the
.Nm
diff --git a/share/man/man4/raid.4 b/share/man/man4/raid.4
index dc53004db6d..79d32165afc 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/raid.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/raid.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: raid.4,v 1.7 1999/07/30 14:45:31 peter Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: raid.4,v 1.8 1999/09/23 04:12:04 alex Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: raid.4,v 1.5 1999/03/16 01:19:17 garbled Exp $
.\"
.\"
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ The driver supports
disks which are on-line, but are not
actively used in an existing filesystem. Should a disk fail, the
driver is capable of reconstructing the failed disk onto a hot spare
-or back onto a replacment drive.
+or back onto a replacement drive.
If the components are hot swapable, the failed disk can then be
removed, a new disk put in it's place, and a copyback operation
performed. The copyback operation, as its name indicates, will copy
@@ -212,13 +212,13 @@ In all cases the
.Sq raw
partitions of the disks
.Pa must not
-be combined. Rather, each component parition should be offset by at least one
+be combined. Rather, each component partition should be offset by at least one
cylinder from the beginning of that component disk. This ensures that
the disklabels for the component disks do not conflict with the
disklabel for the
.Nm
device.
-As well, all component paritions must be of the type
+As well, all component partitions must be of the type
.Dv FS_BSDFFS .
.Pp
A more detailed treatment of actually using a
diff --git a/share/man/man4/route.4 b/share/man/man4/route.4
index 27113d4e332..dd83fd45aaa 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/route.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/route.4
@@ -217,8 +217,8 @@ struct rt_metrics {
u_long rmx_mtu; /* MTU for this path */
u_long rmx_hopcount; /* max hops expected */
u_long rmx_expire; /* lifetime for route, e.g. redirect */
- u_long rmx_recvpipe; /* inbound delay-bandwith product */
- u_long rmx_sendpipe; /* outbound delay-bandwith product */
+ u_long rmx_recvpipe; /* inbound delay-bandwidth product */
+ u_long rmx_sendpipe; /* outbound delay-bandwidth product */
u_long rmx_ssthresh; /* outbound gateway buffer limit */
u_long rmx_rtt; /* estimated round trip time */
u_long rmx_rttvar; /* estimated rtt variance */
diff --git a/share/man/man4/sppp.4 b/share/man/man4/sppp.4
index d4ae06b4d3f..5649f521d9c 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/sppp.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/sppp.4
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $Id: sppp.4,v 1.2 1999/07/09 13:35:49 aaron Exp $
+.\" $Id: sppp.4,v 1.3 1999/09/23 04:12:05 alex Exp $
.\"
.Dd May 19, 1997
.Dt SPPP 4
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Protocol (LCP) of the
.Em point to point protocol (PPP)
as described in RFC 1661. Note that this layer does not provide
network interfaces of its own, it is rather intended to be layered on
-top of drivers providing a synchronuous point-to-point connection that
+top of drivers providing a synchronous point-to-point connection that
wish to run a PPP stack over it. The corresponding network interfaces
have to be provided by these hardware drivers.
.Pp
diff --git a/share/man/man4/tl.4 b/share/man/man4/tl.4
index ab6a6e37ae6..bbf84acada2 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/tl.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/tl.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: tl.4,v 1.4 1999/06/05 13:18:33 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: tl.4,v 1.5 1999/09/23 04:12:05 alex Exp $
.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998
.\" Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu>. All rights reserved.
.\"
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF
.\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $Id: tl.4,v 1.4 1999/06/05 13:18:33 aaron Exp $
+.\" $Id: tl.4,v 1.5 1999/09/23 04:12:05 alex Exp $
.\"
.Dd May 1, 1998
.Dt TL 4
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ driver supports the following media types:
.It autoselect
Enable autoselection of the media type and options. Note that this
option is only available on those PHYs that support autonegotiation.
-Also, the PHY will not advertise those modes that have been explcitly
+Also, the PHY will not advertise those modes that have been explicitly
disabled using the following media options.
.It 10baseT/UTP
Set 10Mbps operation
diff --git a/share/man/man4/tun.4 b/share/man/man4/tun.4
index e19367aa776..5ce5a2121ac 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/tun.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/tun.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: tun.4,v 1.10 1999/06/05 13:18:33 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: tun.4,v 1.11 1999/09/23 04:12:05 alex Exp $
.Dd March 10, 1996
.Dt TUN 4
.Os
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ The process-group values for
signals should be checked; as it stands, the driver can be used (by
anyone who can open the control or data device) to send any desired
signal to an arbitrary process or process group. (Until this is fixed,
-you should be careful to set the permisison bits to allow only root to
+you should be careful to set the permission bits to allow only root to
open the control device, and either do the same for the data device or
leave the
.Dv SUONLY
diff --git a/share/man/man4/tx.4 b/share/man/man4/tx.4
index 7dff4e363d3..9f0aa51ca7b 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/tx.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/tx.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: tx.4,v 1.5 1999/06/29 17:48:41 jason Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: tx.4,v 1.6 1999/09/23 04:12:05 alex Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Jason L. Wright (jason@thought.net)
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ Put the interface into loopback mode
.Bl -diag
.It "tx%d: device timeout %d packets"
The device stopped responding. Device and driver reset follows this error.
-.It "tx%d: PCI fatal error occured (%s)"
-One of following errors occured: PCI Target Abort, PCI Master Abort, Data
+.It "tx%d: PCI fatal error occurred (%s)"
+One of following errors occurred: PCI Target Abort, PCI Master Abort, Data
Parity Error or Address Parity Error. Device and driver reset follows
this error.
.It "tx%d: WARNING! no link established"
diff --git a/share/man/man4/we.4 b/share/man/man4/we.4
index c947f9364ca..b3cb2995325 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/we.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/we.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: we.4,v 1.2 1999/06/05 13:18:34 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: we.4,v 1.3 1999/09/23 04:12:05 alex Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: we.4,v 1.4 1998/08/09 00:39:02 thorpej Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
@@ -58,11 +58,11 @@ WD8003S, WD8003E, and WD8013EBT.
.Pp
Other WD/SMC 80x3 interfaces support two types of media on a single card.
All support the AUI media type. The other media is either BNC or UTP
-beind a transciever. Sofware cannot differentiate between BNC and UTP
+being a transceiver. Sofware cannot differentiate between BNC and UTP
cards. On some models, the AUI port is always active.
.Pp
The SMC Elite Ultra and SMC EtherEZ interfaces support three media
-a single card: AUI, BNC, and UTP. If the transciever is active, the BNC
+a single card: AUI, BNC, and UTP. If the transceiver is active, the BNC
media is selected. Otherwise, the AUI and UTP ports are both active.
.Pp
To enable the AUI media, select the
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ or
media type with
.Xr ifconfig 8 's
.Sq media
-directive. To select the other media (transciever), select the
+directive. To select the other media (transceiver), select the
.Em 10base2
or
.Em bnc
diff --git a/share/man/man5/a.out.5 b/share/man/man5/a.out.5
index eb02ff6792b..5631505eba5 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/a.out.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/a.out.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: a.out.5,v 1.5 1998/11/26 04:25:58 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: a.out.5,v 1.6 1999/09/23 04:12:06 alex Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: a.out.5,v 1.8 1994/11/30 19:31:09 jtc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ If both
.Dv EX_DYNAMIC
and
.Dv EX_PIC
-are set, the object file is a position indendent
+are set, the object file is a position independent
executable image (e.g., a shared library), which is to be loaded into the
process address space by the run-time link editor.
.Pp
diff --git a/share/man/man8/compat_ultrix.8 b/share/man/man8/compat_ultrix.8
index d3a987f00aa..14152e023f9 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/compat_ultrix.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/compat_ultrix.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: compat_ultrix.8,v 1.6 1999/07/09 13:35:36 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: compat_ultrix.8,v 1.7 1999/09/23 04:12:06 alex Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Jonathan Stone
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ semantics that are difficult to emulate (e.g., Ultrix packetfilter) or
buggy (e.g., Ultrix YP).
.Pp
All Ultrix executables are static, so no shared libraries are required
-for Ultrix compatiblity. However, Ultrix is based on a
+for Ultrix compatibility. However, Ultrix is based on a
.Bx 4.3
alpha
release. Ultrix commands and libraries are often much older than
diff --git a/share/man/man8/dhcp.8 b/share/man/man8/dhcp.8
index 2b43fceb4a7..681416771fe 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/dhcp.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/dhcp.8
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ as a DHCP client:
.It
For each interface that is to be configured via DHCP, create a
.Pa /etc/hostname.XXX
-file (where XXX is the interface's indentifier, i.e., ep1) that starts with
+file (where XXX is the interface's identifier, i.e., ep1) that starts with
the word
.Dq dhcp ,
optionally followed by additional interface options. See
diff --git a/share/man/man8/man8.i386/MAKEDEV.8 b/share/man/man8/man8.i386/MAKEDEV.8
index d04207ce4b4..860da7aadc9 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/man8.i386/MAKEDEV.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/man8.i386/MAKEDEV.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: MAKEDEV.8,v 1.11 1999/07/30 19:06:41 deraadt Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: MAKEDEV.8,v 1.12 1999/09/23 04:12:07 alex Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997, Jason Downs. All rights reserved.
.\"
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ pseudo-disks
.Dq ramdisk
pseudo-disks
.It Ar ccd#
-contatenated disk devices
+concatenated disk devices
.It Ar mms#
Microsoft bus mouse
.It Ar lms#
diff --git a/share/man/man8/man8.vax/installboot.8 b/share/man/man8/man8.vax/installboot.8
index 176ed608c6f..a1e570a977c 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/man8.vax/installboot.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/man8.vax/installboot.8
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" from: @(#)installboot.8 7.2 (Berkeley) 3/16/91
-.\" $Id: installboot.8,v 1.4 1999/05/23 14:11:22 aaron Exp $
+.\" $Id: installboot.8,v 1.5 1999/09/23 04:12:07 alex Exp $
.\"
.Dd March 16, 1991
.Dt INSTALLBOOT 8
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
.Ar bootblock bootprog special
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Xr Installboot
-concatentates
+concatenates
.Ar bootblock
and
.Ar bootprog
diff --git a/share/man/man8/ssl.8 b/share/man/man8/ssl.8
index cc47fc20b8a..d55c906851d 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/ssl.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/ssl.8
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ holds a patent on the
algorithm in the United States. Because of this, free
implementations of
.Ar RSA
-are difficult to distribute and propogate.
+are difficult to distribute and propagate.
(The
.Ar RSA
patent is probably more effective at preventing the widespread
diff --git a/share/man/man8/yp.8 b/share/man/man8/yp.8
index 130894af5ce..84c3ff8a817 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/yp.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/yp.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: yp.8,v 1.10 1999/05/16 19:57:40 alex Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: yp.8,v 1.11 1999/09/23 04:12:07 alex Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: yp.8,v 1.9 1995/08/11 01:16:52 thorpej Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993, 1996 Theo de Raadt <deraadt@theos.com>
@@ -218,5 +218,5 @@ The ypbind, most library components, and userland programs were implemented
by Theo de Raadt <deraadt@theos.com>.
The current
.Xr getpwent 3
-implemention was done by Jason Downs <downsj@downsj.com>.
+implementation was done by Jason Downs <downsj@downsj.com>.
The server component was implemented by Mats O Jansson <moj@stacken.kth.se>.
diff --git a/share/man/man9/malloc.9 b/share/man/man9/malloc.9
index 5ba53a7a364..d467195a630 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/malloc.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/malloc.9
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.9,v 1.6 1999/09/02 17:28:06 espie Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.9,v 1.7 1999/09/23 04:12:07 alex Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: malloc.9,v 1.2 1996/10/30 05:29:54 lukem Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1996 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ the kernel version takes two more arguments. The
.Fa flags
argument further qualifies
.Fn malloc No Ns 's
-operational charateristics as follows:
+operational characteristics as follows:
.Bl -tag -offset indent
.It Dv M_NOWAIT
Causes