From 2f0ae5298a5c0f026d9fcf8a395ca3bf9b702046 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aaron Campbell Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 13:26:54 +0000 Subject: grammar police: do not hyphenate compound words that act as adjectives if the first word ends in -ly i.e., fully-qualified, newly-created, globally-visible, etc. are wrong --- usr.bin/learn/src/learn.1 | 4 ++-- usr.bin/lex/flex.1 | 6 +++--- usr.bin/mail/mail.1 | 4 ++-- usr.bin/sup/src/sup.1 | 10 ++++++++-- usr.bin/which/which.1 | 4 ++-- 5 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) (limited to 'usr.bin') diff --git a/usr.bin/learn/src/learn.1 b/usr.bin/learn/src/learn.1 index f276480e09a..0927ab30768 100644 --- a/usr.bin/learn/src/learn.1 +++ b/usr.bin/learn/src/learn.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: learn.1,v 1.2 1998/09/30 16:31:22 ian Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: learn.1,v 1.3 1999/05/12 13:26:51 aaron Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1998 Ian Darwin .\" @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ user under the lesson file directory; this version creates a directory under /tmp for each user. .Sh HISTORY The program originated in Seventh Edition UNIX. -A lightly-revised version of the program was released by +A lightly revised version of the program was released by Lucent/Bell Laboratories in 1997, and modernized for OpenBSD 2.4 by Ian Darwin, who also wrote this man page, and Paul Janzen. diff --git a/usr.bin/lex/flex.1 b/usr.bin/lex/flex.1 index a534ddd9459..8deaae0e31c 100644 --- a/usr.bin/lex/flex.1 +++ b/usr.bin/lex/flex.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: flex.1,v 1.5 1998/08/17 03:20:23 deraadt Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: flex.1,v 1.6 1999/05/12 13:26:51 aaron Exp $ .\" .TH FLEX 1 "April 1995" "Version 2.5" .SH NAME @@ -2569,7 +2569,7 @@ changes the default .I "yy" prefix used by .I flex -for all globally-visible variable and function names to instead be +for all globally visible variable and function names to instead be .I prefix. For example, .B \-Pfoo @@ -2618,7 +2618,7 @@ option also renames so you now .I must either -provide your own (appropriately-named) version of the routine for your +provide your own (appropriately named) version of the routine for your scanner, or use .B %option noyywrap, as linking with diff --git a/usr.bin/mail/mail.1 b/usr.bin/mail/mail.1 index 8cb8a763fa7..e8a9135b522 100644 --- a/usr.bin/mail/mail.1 +++ b/usr.bin/mail/mail.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: mail.1,v 1.22 1998/11/19 23:23:49 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: mail.1,v 1.23 1999/05/12 13:26:51 aaron Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ Identical to the command. .It Ic alias .Pq Ic a -With no arguments, prints out all currently-defined aliases. +With no arguments, prints out all currently defined aliases. With one argument, prints out that alias. With more than one argument, creates diff --git a/usr.bin/sup/src/sup.1 b/usr.bin/sup/src/sup.1 index b103f00a743..10ef0cd0535 100644 --- a/usr.bin/sup/src/sup.1 +++ b/usr.bin/sup/src/sup.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: sup.1,v 1.5 1998/09/05 17:41:47 deraadt Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: sup.1,v 1.6 1999/05/12 13:26:52 aaron Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1992 Carnegie Mellon University .\" All Rights Reserved. @@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ .\""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" .\" HISTORY .\" $Log: sup.1,v $ +.\" Revision 1.6 1999/05/12 13:26:52 aaron +.\" grammar police: do not hyphenate compound words that act as adjectives if the +.\" first word ends in -ly +.\" +.\" i.e., fully-qualified, newly-created, globally-visible, etc. are wrong +.\" .\" Revision 1.5 1998/09/05 17:41:47 deraadt .\" more man page repairs; aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca .\" @@ -665,7 +671,7 @@ prefix,list,scan and host will be used. This file, created by .IR supscan , is the list of filenames that correspond to the instructions in the -list file. The scan file is only used for frequently-updated file +list file. The scan file is only used for frequently updated file collections; it makes the file server run much faster. See .IR supservers (8) for more information. diff --git a/usr.bin/which/which.1 b/usr.bin/which/which.1 index 92adccd854f..7cc52af8977 100644 --- a/usr.bin/which/which.1 +++ b/usr.bin/which/which.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: which.1,v 1.8 1998/10/30 00:24:43 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: which.1,v 1.9 1999/05/12 13:26:52 aaron Exp $ .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991 Regents of the University of California. .\" All rights reserved. .\" @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ uses the environment variable as a colon-separated list of directories in which to find executables. If .Ev PATH -is not set, and the given name is not a fully-qualified +is not set, and the given name is not a fully qualified or relative pathname, .Nm will fail. -- cgit v1.2.3