NetBSD Problem Report #54410
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From: fmoon@sdf.org
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Subject: typos in mail(1)
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>Number: 54410
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: typos in mail(1)
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: misc-bug-people
>State: closed
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Fri Jul 26 12:05:00 +0000 2019
>Closed-Date: Fri Jul 26 14:10:02 +0000 2019
>Last-Modified: Fri Jul 26 14:10:02 +0000 2019
>Originator: fmoon
>Release: current
>Organization:
-
>Environment:
not relevant
>Description:
Here are fixes for a few typos I noticed, reading the manpage of mail.
"It is also possible to create a personal distribution lists so that" -> remove `a' since I believe this whole paragraph is about the plural, lists.
"may" -> many
"If unset, history is not enable." -> enabled
>How-To-Repeat:
man mail
>Fix:
Index: mail.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/usr.bin/mail/mail.1,v
retrieving revision 1.64
diff -u -r1.64 mail.1
--- mail.1 23 May 2018 01:03:46 -0000 1.64
+++ mail.1 26 Jul 2019 11:43:16 -0000
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@
.Fl f
option above).
.Ss Personal and system wide distribution lists
-It is also possible to create a personal distribution lists so that,
+It is also possible to create personal distribution lists so that,
for instance, you can send mail to
.Dq Li cohorts
and have it go
@@ -1500,7 +1500,7 @@
from john@ | fgrep -i ' "Re:' | wc
.Ed
.Pp
-could be used to count how may replies were made by senders with
+could be used to count how many replies were made by senders with
.Ql john@
in their address and
.Bd -literal -offset indent
@@ -1783,7 +1783,7 @@
support.)
.It Ar el-history-size
The number of lines of history to remember.
-If unset, history is not enable.
+If unset, history is not enabled.
(Requires
.Xr editline 3
support.)
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
From: "Christos Zoulas" <christos@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org
Cc:
Subject: PR/54410 CVS commit: src/usr.bin/mail
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 09:05:31 -0400
Module Name: src
Committed By: christos
Date: Fri Jul 26 13:05:31 UTC 2019
Modified Files:
src/usr.bin/mail: mail.1
Log Message:
PR/54410: fmoon: typos in mail(1)
To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.64 -r1.65 src/usr.bin/mail/mail.1
Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: dholland@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 14:10:02 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
committed, thanks!
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