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author | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2012-02-04 15:40:44 +0400 |
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committer | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2012-02-04 15:40:44 +0400 |
commit | e618492ea86bdd7e72d929cb63fffda0d7592384 (patch) | |
tree | e4b918d2fb7a5d7fd8a476616d452c8f0db749d3 /winsup | |
parent | 4423a7671d1739023d57f023eabe240ec4d89335 (diff) |
* faq-using.xml: Fix typos.
* ntsec.sgml: Ditto.
* pathnames.sgml: Ditto.
* setup2.sgml: Ditto.
* setup-net.sgml: Ditto.
(setup-dir): Drop paragraph on Unix/DOS file mode.
Diffstat (limited to 'winsup')
-rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/ChangeLog | 9 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/faq-using.xml | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/ntsec.sgml | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml | 12 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/setup-net.sgml | 8 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/setup2.sgml | 4 |
6 files changed, 20 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index 790b6e979..bf884469b 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ +2012-02-04 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> + + * faq-using.xml: Fix typos. + * ntsec.sgml: Ditto. + * pathnames.sgml: Ditto. + * setup2.sgml: Ditto. + * setup-net.sgml: Ditto. + (setup-dir): Drop paragraph on Unix/DOS file mode. + 2012-01-29 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> * new-features.sgml (ov-new1.7.10): Add tzset. diff --git a/winsup/doc/faq-using.xml b/winsup/doc/faq-using.xml index 72546abfd..a864675bf 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/faq-using.xml +++ b/winsup/doc/faq-using.xml @@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ of this is perl's configuration script, which wants tell the difference between files with just different case, so the configuration fails. </para> -<para>To help with this problem, Cygwin supports casesensitivity +<para>To help with this problem, Cygwin supports case sensitivity starting with Cygwin 1.7.0. For a detailed description how to use that feature see the Cygwin User's Guilde at <ulink url="http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html">http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html</ulink>. diff --git a/winsup/doc/ntsec.sgml b/winsup/doc/ntsec.sgml index 0bacdb46e..8804cceac 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ntsec.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/ntsec.sgml @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ default.</para> be necessarily short. If you want to learn more about the Windows security model, see the <ulink url="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa374860(VS.85).aspx">Access Control</ulink> article in MSDN documentation.</para> -<para>POSIX concepts and specificially the POSIX security model are not +<para>POSIX concepts and in particular the POSIX security model are not discussed here, but assumed to be understood by the reader. If you don't know the POSIX security model, search the web for beginner documentation.</para> diff --git a/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml b/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml index 725cbb0c1..5506eeb36 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ appear as subdirectories (for example, you might buy a new disk and make it be the <filename>/disk2</filename> directory).</para> <para>Because many programs written to run on UNIX systems assume -the existance of a single unified POSIX file system structure, Cygwin +the existence of a single unified POSIX file system structure, Cygwin maintains a special internal POSIX view of the Win32 file system that allows these programs to successfully run under Windows. Cygwin uses this mapping to translate from POSIX to Win32 paths as @@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ filenames bypasses the mount table. </para> <para>If you want to see the current set of mount points valid in your -session, you can invoking the Cygwin tool <command>mount</command> without +session, you can invoke the Cygwin tool <command>mount</command> without arguments:</para> <example id="pathnames-mount-ex"> @@ -288,8 +288,8 @@ on a system are subsumed. The mount options of the cygdrive prefix is used for all file access through the cygdrive prefixed drives. For instance, assuming the cygdrive mount options are <literal>binary,posix=0</literal>, then any file <literal>/cygdrive/x/file</literal> will be opened in -binary mode by default (mount option <literal>binary</literal>, and the case -of the filename doesn't matter (mount option <literal>posix=0</literal>. +binary mode by default (mount option <literal>binary</literal>), and the case +of the filename doesn't matter (mount option <literal>posix=0</literal>). </para> <para>The cygdrive prefix flags are also used for all UNC paths starting with @@ -363,9 +363,9 @@ bypass the information given in the Cygwin mount table.</para> <para>When accessing files using native Win32 paths as above, Cygwin uses a default setting for the mount flags. All paths using DOS notation will be -treated as caseinsensitive, and permissions are just faked as if the +treated as case insensitive, and permissions are just faked as if the underlying drive is a FAT drive. This also applies to NTFS and other -filesystems which usually are capable of casesensitivity and storing +filesystems which usually are capable of case sensitivity and storing permissions.</para> </sect2> diff --git a/winsup/doc/setup-net.sgml b/winsup/doc/setup-net.sgml index 3059a59d3..726372a34 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/setup-net.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/setup-net.sgml @@ -88,12 +88,6 @@ If you do not have the necessary permissions, but still want to use these programs, consult the Cygwin mailing list archives about others' experiences. </para> -<para> -The <literal>Default Text File Type</literal> should be left on -<literal>Unix</literal> (that is, <literal>\n</literal>) unless you -have a very good reason to switch it to -<literal>DOS</literal> (that is, <literal>\r\n</literal>). -</para> </sect2> <sect2 id="setup-localdir"><title>Local Package Directory</title> @@ -150,7 +144,7 @@ setup.exe homepage</ulink>. The chooser is the most complex part of <command>setup.exe</command>. Packages are grouped into categories, and one package may belong to multiple categories (assigned by the volunteer package maintainer). Each package -can be found under any of those categories in the heirarchial chooser view. +can be found under any of those categories in the hirarchial chooser view. By default, <command>setup.exe</command> will install only the packages in the <literal>Base</literal> category and their dependencies, resulting in a minimal Cygwin installation. diff --git a/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml b/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml index 52daf8875..4d87fc2d1 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/setup2.sgml @@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ UTF-16 encoding to store filename information. Not all characters from the Unicode character set are available in a singlebyte or doublebyte charset. While Cygwin has a workaround to access files with unusual characters (see <xref linkend="pathnames-unusual"></xref>), a better -workaround is to use always the UTF-8 character set.i</para> +workaround is to use always the UTF-8 character set.</para> <para><emphasis>UTF-8 is the only multibyte character set which can represent every Unicode character.</emphasis></para> @@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ environment, if it's different from the UTF-8 charset.</para> <note><para>Per POSIX, the name of an environment variable should only consist of valid ASCII characters, and only of uppercase letters, digits, and -the underscore for maximum portablilty.</para></note> +the underscore for maximum portabilty.</para></note> <para>Symbolic links, too, may pose a problem when switching charsets on the fly. A symbolic link contains the filename of the target file the |