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* [9front] mainly just spelling and typos
@ 2021-11-01 20:49 Stuart Morrow
  2021-11-01 20:55 ` [9front] " Stuart Morrow
  2021-11-01 21:54 ` [9front] " qwx
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Stuart Morrow @ 2021-11-01 20:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9front

Most are self-explanatory, but:
1. nusb(4) is reverted to match what's in plan9.ini(8) (and I add a hyphen)
2. in ps(1), try expanding
	(old) $resource	Waiting for more of a critical $resource
	(new) $resource	Waiting for more of a critical resource
   when $resource is, say, "memory".

Diskparts(8) erroneously claims sd[C-H] for IDE controllers; no
diff is attached because I wouldn't know what to replace it with.
Why should the manual single out IDE controllers in the current year?

diff 87a823332f9eaa4ff1e72f8524f6e59d1cc4f407 uncommitted
--- a/sys/src/cmd/ascii.c
+++ b/sys/src/cmd/ascii.c
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 int    ncol;
 int    text=1;
 int    strip=0;
-Biobuf bin;
+Biobuf bout;

 void
 main(int argc, char **argv)
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
 {
        int i;

-       Binit(&bin, 1, OWRITE);
+       Binit(&bout, 1, OWRITE);
        ARGBEGIN{
        case '8':
                nchars=256; break;
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
                for(i=0;i<nchars;i++){
                        put(i);
                        if((i&7)==7)
-                               Bprint(&bin, "|\n");
+                               Bprint(&bout, "|\n");
                }
        }else{
                if(text==1)
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
                        else
                                putnum(*argv++);
        }
-       Bputc(&bin, '\n');
+       Bputc(&bout, '\n');
        exits(0);
 }
 void
@@ -118,9 +118,9 @@
 void
 put(int i)
 {
-       Bputc(&bin, '|');
+       Bputc(&bout, '|');
        putn(i, ncol);
-       Bprint(&bin, " %s", str[i]);
+       Bprint(&bout, " %s", str[i]);
 }
 char dig[]="0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
 void
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
        if(ndig==0)
                return;
        putn(n/base, ndig-1);
-       Bputc(&bin, dig[n%base]);
+       Bputc(&bout, dig[n%base]);
 }
 void
 puttext(char *s)
@@ -137,9 +137,9 @@
        int n;
        n=btoi(s)&0377;
        if(strip)
-               Bputc(&bin, n);
+               Bputc(&bout, n);
        else
-               Bprint(&bin, "%s\n", str[n]);
+               Bprint(&bout, "%s\n", str[n]);
 }
 void
 putnum(char *s)
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@
 {
        while(*s){
                putn(*s++&0377, ncol);
-               Bputc(&bin, '\n');
+               Bputc(&bout, '\n');
        }
 }
 int
--- a/sys/src/cmd/ls.c
+++ b/sys/src/cmd/ls.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 int    mwidth;                 /* max width of muid */
 int    lwidth;                 /* max width of length */
 int    gwidth;                 /* max width of groupid */
-Biobuf bin;
+Biobuf bout;

 void
 main(int argc, char *argv[])
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 {
        int i;

-       Binit(&bin, 1, OWRITE);
+       Binit(&bout, 1, OWRITE);
        ARGBEGIN{
        case 'F':       Fflag++; break;
        case 'd':       dflag++; break;
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@
                        format(dirbuf[i].d, dirbuf[i].d->name);
        }
        ndir = 0;
-       Bflush(&bin);
+       Bflush(&bout);
 }

 void
@@ -211,23 +211,23 @@
        int i;

        if(sflag)
-               Bprint(&bin, "%*llud ",
+               Bprint(&bout, "%*llud ",
                        swidth, (db->length+1023)/1024);
        if(mflag){
-               Bprint(&bin, "[%q] ", db->muid);
+               Bprint(&bout, "[%q] ", db->muid);
                for(i=2+strlen(db->muid); i<mwidth; i++)
-                       Bprint(&bin, " ");
+                       Bprint(&bout, " ");
        }
        if(qflag)
-               Bprint(&bin, "(%.16llux %*lud %.2ux) ",
+               Bprint(&bout, "(%.16llux %*lud %.2ux) ",
                        db->qid.path,
                        qwidth, db->qid.vers,
                        db->qid.type);
        if(Tflag)
-               Bprint(&bin, "%c ", (db->mode&DMTMP)? 't': '-');
+               Bprint(&bout, "%c ", (db->mode&DMTMP)? 't': '-');

        if(lflag)
-               Bprint(&bin, "%M %C %*ud %*q %*q %*llud %s ",
+               Bprint(&bout, "%M %C %*ud %*q %*q %*llud %s ",
                        db->mode, db->type,
                        vwidth, db->dev,
                        -uwidth, db->uid,
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@
                        -gwidth, db->gid,
                        lwidth, db->length,
                        asciitime(uflag? db->atime: db->mtime));
-       Bprint(&bin, Qflag? "%s%s\n": "%q%s\n", name, fileflag(db));
+       Bprint(&bout, Qflag? "%s%s\n": "%q%s\n", name, fileflag(db));
 }

 void
diff 35a8152ebc0edc2a6cc6b1e37a08ff8e31033703 uncommitted
--- a//rc/bin/dosmnt
+++ b//rc/bin/dosmnt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 	exit usage
 }

-x=(`{ls /dev/sd??/dos* >[2]/dev/null |uniq})
+x=(`{ls /dev/sd?*/dos* >[2]/dev/null |uniq})
 if(test $#x -lt $1){
 	echo 'not that many dos disks' >[1=2]
 	exit usage
--- a//sys/man/4/nusb
+++ b//sys/man/4/nusb
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
 is the device class, subclass, protocol indentifier
 formatted as 6 digit hexadecimal.
 .I Usbd
-assigns a stable device identifier based on the
+assigns a stable device-unique name based on the
 device descriptor for
 .IR hname .
 This information is read by
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@
 .BR /dev )
 that includes one directory per storage device, named
 .BI sdU N [. M ]
-in correspondence with the USB device identifier
+in correspondence with the USB device-unique name
 and the storage unit number (or LUN). The LUN is omited
 for single lun devices.
 .PP
--- a/sys/man/1/grep
+++ b/sys/man/1/grep
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
 .I grep
 with
 .B -n
-(plus aditional flags, if provided)
+(plus additional flags, if provided)
 and forces tagging of output lines by file name. If no files
 are listed, it recursively searches the current directory for
 all files matching
--- a/sys/man/1/ps
+++ b/sys/man/1/ps
@@ -80,8 +80,7 @@
 performing the named system call.
 .TP
 .BI no " resource
-waiting for more of a critical
-.IR resource .
+waiting for more of a critical resource.
 .PD
 .PP
 The
@@ -109,8 +108,8 @@
 to print the arguments for the process.  Newlines in arguments will
be translated to spaces for display.
 .PP
 .I Pstree
-prints the processes as a tree in a two colum layout where
-the first colum being the process id and second column
+prints the processes as a tree in a two-column layout where
+the first column being the process id and second column
 the program name and arguments indented and prefixed with
 line drawing runes to reflect the nesting in the hierarchy.
 .SH FILES
--- a/sys/man/2/graphics
+++ b/sys/man/2/graphics
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@
 .BR screen ,
 a pointer to the
 .B Image
-defining the window (or the overall display, if no window system is
running); and
+defining the window (or the overall display, if no window system is
running), and
 .BR _screen ,
 a pointer to the
 .B Screen
--- a/sys/man/3/audio
+++ b/sys/man/3/audio
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 .B buffered
 followed by the number of bytes currently queued for output. The
 numbers are decimal and right-padded with spaces to fit.
-After this fixed header, the contents of the file is driver specific.
+After this fixed header, the content of the file is driver-specific.
 .PP
 .B Volume
 is the control file associated with the audio port.  Each source has
--- a/sys/man/4/cifs
+++ b/sys/man/4/cifs
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .I Cifs
 translates between Microsoft's file-sharing protocol
-(a.k.a. CIFS or SMB) and 9P, allowing Plan9 clients to mount file systems
+(a.k.a. CIFS or SMB) and 9P, allowing Plan 9 clients to mount file systems
 (shares or trees in MS terminology) published by such servers.
 .PP
 The root of the mounted directory contains one subdirectory per share,
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@
 .B -a
 option can be used to force
 .I cifs
-to use one of the less secure authentication mechnisms.
+to use one of the less secure authentication mechanisms.
 .LP
 Windows 7 has dropped support for RAP, which is used to generate
 the synthetic files offered by
--- a/sys/man/4/tftpfs
+++ b/sys/man/4/tftpfs
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 network bootstrap (see
 .IR dhcpd (8)).
 As the protocol has no way of distinguishing files from
-directories, the final path segment needs to conain a dot
+directories, the final path segment needs to contain a dot
 (.) character to be recognized as a file. To access files that
 have no dot in the filename, a trailing dot has to be added
 and will be stripped before it is passed to the server.
--- a/sys/man/6/style
+++ b/sys/man/6/style
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 .IP •
 no tabs expanded to spaces.
 .IP •
-surround a binary operator (particular a low precedence one) with spaces;
+surround a binary operator (particularly a low precedence one) with spaces;
 don't try to write the most compact code possible
 but rather the most readable.
 .IP •
--- a/sys/man/8/ipserv
+++ b/sys/man/8/ipserv
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@
 .PP
 .I Socksd
 is a SOCKS4 and SOCKS5
-proxy server allowing non Plan9 machines to access the
+proxy server allowing non-Plan 9 machines to access the
 outside network.
 The net to use for outgoing calls can be specified
 with the
--- a/sys/man/8/plan9.ini
+++ b/sys/man/8/plan9.ini
@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@
 from the top of physical memory.
 .SS AUDIO
 .SS \fLaudio\fIX\fL=\fIvalue\fP
-This defines a sound interface. PCI based audio devices such as
+This defines a sound interface. PCI-based audio devices such as
 Intel HD audio or AC97 are autodetected and do not require any settings.
 .PP
 Known types are
@@ -778,7 +778,7 @@
 This variable is automatically generated by the boot loader (see
 .IR 9boot (8))
 by doing a BIOS E820 memory scan while still in realmode and
-passed to the kernel. The format is a unordered list of
+passed to the kernel. The format is an unordered list of
 decimal region
 .I type
 and hexadecimal 64-bit
diff 35a8152ebc0edc2a6cc6b1e37a08ff8e31033703 uncommitted
--- a//sys/man/4/bzfs
+++ b//sys/man/4/bzfs
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 The
 .B -m
 option sets the mountpoint
-.I mptp
+.I mtpt
 (default /root).
 If the
 .B -s
--- a/sys/src/cmd/disk/prep/edisk.c
+++ b/sys/src/cmd/disk/prep/edisk.c
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@
 {UU(0x6A82CB45,0x1DD2,0x11B2,0x99A6,0x080020736631ULL),
"solarisboot", "Solaris Boot"},
 {UU(0x6A85CF4D,0x1DD2,0x11B2,0x99A6,0x080020736631ULL),
"solarisroot", "Solaris Root"},
 {UU(0x6A87C46F,0x1DD2,0x11B2,0x99A6,0x080020736631ULL),
"solarisswap", "Solaris Swap"},
-{UU(0x6A8B642B,0x1DD2,0x11B2,0x99A6,0x080020736631ULL),
"solarisbakup", "Solaris Backup"},
+{UU(0x6A8B642B,0x1DD2,0x11B2,0x99A6,0x080020736631ULL),
"solarisbackup", "Solaris Backup"},
 {UU(0x6A898CC3,0x1DD2,0x11B2,0x99A6,0x080020736631ULL), "solarisusr",
"Solaris /usr"},
 {UU(0x6A8EF2E9,0x1DD2,0x11B2,0x99A6,0x080020736631ULL), "solarisvar",
"Solaris /var"},
 {UU(0x6A90BA39,0x1DD2,0x11B2,0x99A6,0x080020736631ULL),
"solarishome", "Solaris /home"},
diff 7879a3a9a614bdde9f7a22246536980ec27289fc uncommitted
--- a//sys/man/8/prep
+++ b//sys/man/8/prep
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
 .B 0x39
 are Plan 9 partitions.
 EFI systems use GUID partition table (GPT) format where partition types
-are identied by a 128-bit long identifiers. The randomly
+are identified by a 128-bit long identifiers. The randomly
 generated GUID
 .B C91818F9-8025-47AF-89D2-F030D7000C2C
 is used to identify the Plan 9 partition type in this scheme.
@@ -158,7 +158,9 @@
 worm filesystem.
 .TP
 .B fs
-A kfs file system.
+An
+.IR hjfs (4)
+file system.
 .TP
 .B fscfg
 A one-sector partition used to store an
diff 7879a3a9a614bdde9f7a22246536980ec27289fc uncommitted
--- a/sys/lib/dist/ndb/local
+++ b/sys/lib/dist/ndb/local
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 	ns=M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET

 #
-#  because the public demands the name localsource
+#  because the public demands the name localhost
 #
 ip=127.0.0.1 sys=localhost dom=localhost

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