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authorJim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>1993-06-09 11:59:12 +0000
committerJim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>1993-06-09 11:59:12 +0000
commit51e0793e64ad3bd5dc846baec79a4b7bd4b6bbd1 (patch)
tree063390d9d89804416186b2e30f271758dc0a0542 /etc
parent991171cf5b04b6949734b55ab6d6f5657ee19428 (diff)
downloademacs-51e0793e64ad3bd5dc846baec79a4b7bd4b6bbd1.tar.gz
Apply typo patches from Paul Eggert.
Diffstat (limited to 'etc')
-rw-r--r--etc/FAQ16
-rw-r--r--etc/termcap.dat8
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/etc/FAQ b/etc/FAQ
index d5d137363b8..1d594cbf565 100644
--- a/etc/FAQ
+++ b/etc/FAQ
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ General Questions
The real legal meaning of the GNU General Public Licence (copyleft) is
however it is interpreted by a judge. There has never been a copyright
- infringment case involving the GPL to set any precedents. Please take any
+ infringement case involving the GPL to set any precedents. Please take any
discussion regarding this issue to the newsgroup gnu.misc.discuss, which
was created to hold the extensive flame wars on the subject.
@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ General Questions
If you are receiving a GNU mailing list named `XXX', you might be able
to unsubscribe to it by sending a request to the address
`XXX-request@prep.ai.mit.edu'. However, this will not work if you are
- not listed on the main mailing list, but instead recieve the mail from a
+ not listed on the main mailing list, but instead receive the mail from a
distribution point. In that case, you will have to track down at which
distribution point you are listed. Inspecting the `Received:' headers
on the mail messages may help, along with liberal use of the `EXPN' or
@@ -2087,7 +2087,7 @@ Bugs/Problems
Cliff Stoll in his book `The Cuckoo's Egg' describes this in chapter 4.
The site at LBL had installed the `etc/movemail' program setuid root.
Since `movemail' had not been designed for this situation, a security
- hole was created and users could get root priveleges.
+ hole was created and users could get root privileges.
`movemail' has since been changed so that even if it is installed setuid
root this security hole will not be a result.
@@ -2132,8 +2132,8 @@ Bugs/Problems
Emacs accepts synthetic X events generated by the SendEvent request as
though they were regular events. As a result, if you are using the
trivial host-based authentication, other users who can open X
- connections to your X workstatation can make your Emacs process do
- anything, including run other processes with your priveleges.
+ connections to your X workstation can make your Emacs process do
+ anything, including run other processes with your privileges.
The only fix for this is to prevent other users from being able to open
X connections. The standard way to prevent this is to use a real
@@ -2328,7 +2328,7 @@ Finding/Getting Emacs and Related Packages
;; LCD Archive Entry:
;; tex-complete|Sebastian Kremer|sk@thp.Uni-Koeln.DE
;; |Minibuffer name completion for editing [La]TeX.
- ;; |91-03-26|$Revision: 20.5 $|~/packages/tex-complete.el.Z !
+ ;; |91-03-26|$Revision: 1.4 $|~/packages/tex-complete.el.Z !
Dave Brennan has software which automatically looks for data in this
format. The format is fairly flexible. The entry ends when a line is
@@ -3198,7 +3198,7 @@ Changing Key Bindings and Handling Key Binding Problems
X keysyms Up, Left, Right, and Down.)
Break (the `Alternate' key is given this keysym)
- These keys work like Sun function keys. When Emacs recieves the
+ These keys work like Sun function keys. When Emacs receives the
keysym, it will internally use character sequences that look like "ESC
[ ### z", where ### is replaced by a number. The character sequences
are identical to those generated by Sun's keyboard under SunView. Any
@@ -3881,7 +3881,7 @@ Using Emacs with Alternate Character Sets
With these patches, Emacs becomes fully 8-bit operational. There is
support for displaying 8-bit characters, as well as for entering such
- characters from the keyboard. In addition, upcase/lowcase tranlatsion
+ characters from the keyboard. In addition, upcase/lowcase translation
is supported, accented characters are recognized as "letters" (important
when doing 'forward-word', for example), and text with 8-bit characters
can be sorted correctly.
diff --git a/etc/termcap.dat b/etc/termcap.dat
index a9d0ef02e0a..b86869c1fa7 100644
--- a/etc/termcap.dat
+++ b/etc/termcap.dat
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ N0|aa|annarbor|4080|ann arbor 4080:\
# Briefly, the settings are for the following modes:
# (values are for bit set/clear with * indicating our preference
# and the value used to test these termcaps)
-# Note that many of these settings are irelevent to the termcap
+# Note that many of these settings are irrelevant to the termcap
# and are just set to the default mode of the terminal as shipped
# by the factory.
#
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ N0|aa|annarbor|4080|ann arbor 4080:\
# transmit all characters/transmit only selected characters*
# transmit all selected areas/transmit only 1 selected area*
#
-# transmit/do not transmit line seperators to host*
+# transmit/do not transmit line separators to host*
# transmit/do not transmit page tab stops tabs to host*
# transmit/do not transmit column tab stop tabs to host*
# transmit/do not transmit graphics control (underline,inverse..)*
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ N0|aa|annarbor|4080|ann arbor 4080:\
#
# D menu: 0110 1001 1 0
# LF is newline/LF is down one line, same column*
-# wrap to preceeding line if move left from col 1*/don't wrap
+# wrap to preceding line if move left from col 1*/don't wrap
# wrap to next line if move right from col 80*/don't wrap
# backspace is/is not destructive*
#
@@ -804,7 +804,7 @@ MS|soroc|Soroc 120:\
:kl=^H:ku=^K:kr=^L:kd=^J:tc=adm3a:
# Needs function keys added. Also can't use 60 line mode because it needs
# too much nl delay - can fix for nl but not out of vi.
-# The cl delay is sufficent, but a smaller one could do.
+# The cl delay is sufficient, but a smaller one could do.
# This entry is merged from Mike O'Brien@Rand and Howard Katseff at
# Bell Labs, and is untested.
Mb|aaa|ambas|ambassador|ann arbor ambassador/48 lines:\