Changeset 76c0b78

Timestamp:

02/05/2002 12:44:06 AM (22 years ago)

Author:

Mark Hymers <markh@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, v3_2, v3_3, v4_0, v4_1, v5_0, v5_1, v5_1_1, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

bdc08c1

Parents:

2d416d6

Message:

spelling / phrasing fixes

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1547 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter01/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter01/othermodes.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter05/whystatic.xml (modified) (3 diffs)
• chapter06/kbd-exp.xml (modified) (1 diff)

appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml

@@ -69 +69 @@
 (this is done through an entry in /etc/inittab). Init also tries to 
 execute sulogin when it is passed the -b flag from the boot loader 
-(eg, LILO).</para></sect3>
+(e.g., LILO).</para></sect3>
 
 <sect3><title>telinit</title>

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -154 +154 @@
 
 <listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 6 - file: changed
-the installation instruction so the sed isn't nessecary anymore.</para></listitem>
+the installation instruction so the sed isn't necessary anymore.</para></listitem>
 
 <listitem><para>January 14th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Changed the kernel header

chapter01/othermodes.xml

@@ -11 +11 @@
 what to write to unset a mode.</para>
 
-<para>The listname in the example subject headers should be replaced with the 
-listname to which 
-the mode is going to be applied to. If more than one mode is to be set (to
+<para>The word "listname" in the example subject headers below should be
+replaced with the listname to which the mode is going to be applied.
+If more than one mode is to be set (to
 the same list or multiple lists) with one email, this can be done by
 leaving the subject header blank and writing all the commands in the body of 

chapter05/whystatic.xml

@@ -7 +7 @@
 
 <para>When making (compiling) a program, rather than having to rewrite all the
-functions for dealing with the kernel, hardware, files, etc. everytime you
+functions for dealing with the kernel, hardware, files, etc. every time you
 write a new program, all these basic functions are instead kept in libraries.
 glibc, which you install later, is one of these major libraries, which contain
@@ -17 +17 @@
 
 <para>However, these libraries can be very large (for example, libc.a
-from can often be around 2.5MB), so you may not want a seperate copy of 
+from can often be around 2.5MB), so you may not want a separate copy of 
 each library attached to the
 program. Just imagine if you had a simple command like ls with an extra 2.5MB
 attached to it! Instead of making the library an actual part of the
-program, or Statically Linked, the library is kept a seperate file,
+program, or Statically Linked, the library is kept a separate file,
 which is loaded only when the program needs it. This is what we call Dynamically
 Linked, as the library is loaded and unloaded dynamically, as the program needs
@@ -51 +51 @@
 main set of system libraries, glibc. Once this is made we start rebuilding 
 all the programs we just did in Chapter 5, but this time dynamically linked, 
-so that we can take advantage of the space saving opportunites.</para>
+so that we can take advantage of the space saving opportunities.</para>
 
 <para>And there you have it, that's why you need to use those weird

chapter06/kbd-exp.xml

@@ -4 +4 @@
 <para><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../kbd-&kbd-patch-version;.patch</userinput>:
 This patch fixes two problems. The first one is the <userinput>loadkeys -d</userinput>
-behaviour which is broken in current kbd versions. It is nessecary to fix this,
+behaviour which is broken in current kbd versions. It is necessary to fix this,
 because the boot scripts rely on a proper <userinput>loadkeys -d</userinput>.
 The second part of the patch changes a Makefile so some utilities (setlogcons,