ref: b6bf2a421d1eb727f0ad5a62a295bed611756e29
parent: d9bcf55266def43df22d796c0b511481dbc5c209
author: sl <sl@stanleylieber.com>
date: Sun Sep 12 16:53:12 EDT 2021
fqa*.ms: corrections (thanks, Nicola Girardi)
--- a/fqa0.ms
+++ b/fqa0.ms
@@ -194,12 +194,12 @@
.ihtml a <a href="http://www.9legacy.org">
9legacy
.ihtml a
-\(em David du Colombier's cherry picked collection of patches from various people/forks to Bell Labs Plan 9. (it is not a fork)
+\(em David du Colombier's cherry picked collection of patches from various people/forks to Bell Labs Plan 9. (It is not a fork.)
.ihtml a <a href="http://www.9atom.org">
9atom
.ihtml a
-\(em Erik Quanstrom's fork of Plan 9, maintained to erik's needs and occasionally pilfered by 9front.
+\(em Erik Quanstrom's fork of Plan 9, maintained to Erik's needs and occasionally pilfered by 9front.
.ihtml a <a href="http://9front.org">
9front
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@
.B
Let's be perfectly honest.
.R
-Many features that today's "computer experts" consider to be essential to computing (javascript, CSS, HTML5, etc.) either did not exist when Plan 9 was abandoned, or were purposely left out of the operating system. You might find this to be an unacceptable obstacle to adopting Plan 9 into your daily workflow. If you cannot imagine a use for a computer that does not involve a web browser, Plan 9 may not be for you.
+Many features that today's "computer experts" consider to be essential to computing (JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, etc.) either did not exist when Plan 9 was abandoned, or were purposely left out of the operating system. You might find this to be an unacceptable obstacle to adopting Plan 9 into your daily workflow. If you cannot imagine a use for a computer that does not involve a web browser, Plan 9 may not be for you.
See:
.ihtml a <a href="http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/">
@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@
.R
.ihtml h3
-Descriptive testmony by long time Plan 9 users Charles Forstyh, Anthony Sorace and Geoff Collyer:
+Descriptive testimony by long time Plan 9 users Charles Forsyth, Anthony Sorace and Geoff Collyer:
.ihtml a <a href="https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/what_do_people_like_about_plan_9/index.html">
https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/what_do_people_like_about_plan_9/index.html
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@
.ihtml h3
.ihtml a <a href="http://jfloren.net">
-John floren
+John Floren
.ihtml a
provides a humorous(?) overview of
.ihtml a <a href="http://jfloren.net/b/2012/4/27/0">
@@ -1055,7 +1055,7 @@
.ihtml a
by
.ihtml a <a href="http://lsub.org/who/nemo">
-Francisco J Ballestros (nemo)
+Francisco J Ballesteros (nemo)
.ihtml a
.ihtml a <a href="http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/_books/comp/plan9/Notes.On.The.Plan.9.3rd.Edition.Kernel.Source.pdf">
@@ -1065,7 +1065,7 @@
.ihtml a
by
.ihtml a <a href="http://lsub.org/who/nemo">
-Francisco J Ballestros (nemo)
+Francisco J Ballesteros (nemo)
.ihtml a
.ihtml a <a href="http://books.cat-v.org/computer-science/unix-programming-environment/">
--- a/fqa1.ms
+++ b/fqa1.ms
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@
• Interruptable kernel qlocks (\f(CWeqlock\fR)
-• Defered clunks (\f(CWcloseproc\fR) for cached mounts
+• Deferred clunks (\f(CWcloseproc\fR) for cached mounts
• New
.CW rc
@@ -1166,7 +1166,7 @@
.ihtml a <a href="http://man.9front.org/1/git">
.CW git
.ihtml a
-\(em - native git client.
+\(em native git client.
•
.ihtml a <a href="http://man.9front.org/1/gs">
--- a/fqa2.ms
+++ b/fqa2.ms
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@
.R
where
.CW something
-is a likely word that might appear in the title of the manual page you're looking for. For example:
+is a word that is likely to appear in the title of the manual page you're looking for. For example:
.P1
% lookman vesa
man 3 vga # vga(3)
@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@
give us a way of reproducing the issue.
.LP
-Before Before making the patch, make sure your system is up to
+Before making the patch, make sure your system is up to
date.
.LP
--- a/fqa4.ms
+++ b/fqa4.ms
@@ -1192,9 +1192,11 @@
.ihtml ul
.B Note:
-Encrypted partitians are largely untested. Data integrity is not guaranteed. Use at your own risk.
+Encrypted partitions are largely untested with
+.CW cwfs .
+Data integrity is not guaranteed. Use at your own risk.
-Encrypted partitions have not been tested with
+Encrypted partitions have not been tested at all with
.CW hjfs .
Read:
--- a/fqa7.ms
+++ b/fqa7.ms
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
The kernel is a service that provides processes and resources to users active on an individual machine. Every Plan 9 machine boots a kernel.
-At boot time the kernel takes on the identify of
+At boot time the kernel takes on the identity of
.CW $user
(the user who logs in at the console), which becomes the
.CW hostowner
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@
cp /amd64/9pc64 /n/9fat/
.P2
-Finally, if a different kernel is being intsalled than the one currently running, edit
+Finally, if a different kernel is being installed than the one currently running, edit
.CW plan9.ini
and change
.CW bootfile
--- a/fqa8.ms
+++ b/fqa8.ms
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@
The special file
.CW /dev/text
-(for the current window), or \f(CW/dev/wsys/\fIn\f(CW/text\fR (for window \fIn\fR) contains all text that has already appeared in the window. The contents of this file may serve as a primitive form of command history (and may be acted upon using standard command line tools), but are lost when the window is closed.
+(for the current window), or \f(CW/mnt/wsys/\fIn\f(CW/text\fR (for window \fIn\fR) contains all text that has already appeared in the window. The contents of this file may serve as a primitive form of command history (and may be acted upon using standard command line tools), but are lost when the window is closed.
Seriously, read:
.ihtml a <a href="http://man.9front.org/4/rio">
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@
Beyond this, Rob offered
.ihtml a <a href="http://marc.info/?l=9fans&m=111558805207697">
-an explanantion
+an explanation
.ihtml a
(in response to a question on the 9fans mailing list) of some of the choices made in the design of
.CW 8½
@@ -1550,10 +1550,10 @@
.CW ramfs
and
invokes
-.CW \$editor
+.CW \\$editor
on them. When the editor exits,
.CW ipso
-prompts the user to confirm copying modifed or newly created
+prompts the user to confirm copying modified or newly created
files back to secstore. If no file is mentioned,
.CW ipso
grabs all the user's files from secstore for editing.
@@ -1647,7 +1647,7 @@
.R
connects to the cpu service, which normally listens on TCP port 17019, after authenticating against the auth server, which normally listens on TCP port 567. Authentication against the auth server is bypassed when connecting as the auth server's hostowner.
-On the occassion you find yourself behind a firewall that blocks the auth/ticket TCP port 567, or the cpu TCP port 17019, you can configure your auth or cpu servers to listen on different ports.
+On the occasion you find yourself behind a firewall that blocks the auth/ticket TCP port 567, or the cpu TCP port 17019, you can configure your auth or cpu servers to listen on different ports.
To configure the auth server to listen on TCP port 80, in addition to TCP port 567:
.P1
@@ -1938,7 +1938,7 @@
.CW mroot .
The
.CW linux
-script is neccesary because for Linux programs to run, shared
+script is necessary because for Linux programs to run, shared
libraries from your
.CW mroot
have to appear in its
@@ -2011,7 +2011,7 @@
If
.CW linuxemu
-crashes, use acid to figure out whats going on:
+crashes, use acid to figure out what's going on:
.P1
mk acid
acid -l linuxemu.acid <pid>
@@ -2045,7 +2045,7 @@
This slows
.CW linuxemu
-down considerably. In case of race conditions, it often happens that the bug disapears when doing full trace logging!
+down considerably. In case of race conditions, it often happens that the bug disappears when doing full trace logging!
.html - <a name="8.7.2" />
.ihtml h3 <h3>
@@ -2450,7 +2450,7 @@
User directories will then be available under
.CW /n/contrib/ ,
-and a mostly completete mirror of the defunct Bell Labs sources server will be available under
+and a mostly complete mirror of the defunct Bell Labs sources server will be available under
.CW /n/sources/ .
These directories are also accessible via HTTP:
@@ -2699,7 +2699,7 @@
There is a native
.CW git
-implementation availabe for plan 9.
+implementation available for plan 9.
It has been added to the 9front distribution, but
upstream is still located here:
.ihtml a <a href="http://shithub.us/ori/git9/HEAD/info.html">
--- a/fqa9.ms
+++ b/fqa9.ms
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
• Boot parameters beginning with a
.CW *
-are interpreted by the kernel. All other parameters are passed as enviroment variables to the boot process.
+are interpreted by the kernel. All other parameters are passed as environment variables to the boot process.
• Adding or changing a parameter:
.CW param=value