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Subject: Nits in new-users 
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>Number:         19534
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Nits in new-users
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jun 26 14:20:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:    Mon Jun 26 19:49:02 PDT 2000
>Last-Modified:  Mon Jun 26 19:49:25 PDT 2000
>Originator:     Daniel Harris
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

	

>Description:

	
	Missing spaces, closed a parens set, other small nits.

>How-To-Repeat:

	<Coe/input/activities to reproduce the problem (multiple lines)>

>Fix:

	

--- /usr/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/articles/new-users/article.sgml	Tue Oct 12 08:41:51 1999
+++ article.sgml	Mon Jun 26 16:25:08 2000
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
       case-sensitive&mdash;<command>exit</command>, not
       <command>EXIT</command>.</para>
 
-    <para>To shut down the machine type:</para>
+    <para>To shut down the machine type</para>
 
     <informalexample>
       <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>/sbin/shutdown -h now</userinput>
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
     <para>You can also reboot with
       <keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>Alt</keycap><keycap>Delete</keycap></keycombo>.
       Give it a little time to do its work.  This is equivalent to
-      <command>/sbin/reboot</command> in recent releases of FreeBSD,
+      <command>/sbin/reboot</command> in recent releases of FreeBSD
       and is much, much better than hitting the reset button.  You
       don't want to have to reinstall this thing, do you?</para>
   </sect1>
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@
 
 	<listitem>
 	  <para>Lists hidden <quote>dot</quote> files with the others.
-	    If you're root, the<quote>dot</quote> files show up
+	    If you're root, the <quote>dot</quote> files show up
 	    without the <option>-a</option> switch.</para>
 	</listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@
 
 	<listitem>
 	  <para>Lets you look at a file (named
-	    <replaceable>filename</replaceable> without changing it.
+	    <replaceable>filename</replaceable>) without changing it.
 	    Try <command>view
 	    <parameter>/etc/fstab</parameter></command>.
 	    <command>:q</command> to quit.</para>
@@ -374,16 +374,16 @@
       time to finish before you start the next one, for now.</para>
 
     <informalexample>
-      <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>/etc/daily</userinput>
+      <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>periodic daily</userinput>
 <lineannotation>output omitted</lineannotation>
-&prompt.root; <userinput>/etc/weekly</userinput>
+&prompt.root; <userinput>periodic weekly</userinput>
 <lineannotation>output omitted</lineannotation>
-&prompt.root; <userinput>/etc/monthly</userinput>
+&prompt.root; <userinput>periodic monthly</userinput>
 <lineannotation>output omitted</lineannotation>
       </screen>
     </informalexample>
 
-    <para>If you get tired waiting, press
+    <para>If you get tired of waiting, press
       <keycombo><keycap>Alt</keycap><keycap>F2</keycap></keycombo> to
       get another <firstterm>virtual console</firstterm>, and log in
       again.  After all, it's a multi-user, multi-tasking system.
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@
       <filename>/var/mail/root</filename> and
       <filename>/var/log/messages</filename>.</para>
 
-    <para>Basically running such commands is part of system
+    <para>Running such commands is part of system
       administration&mdash;and as a single user of a Unix system,
       you're your own system administrator.  Virtually everything you
       need to be root to do is system administration.  Such
@@ -912,10 +912,10 @@
     <para>If you originally got Netscape as a port using the CDROM (or
       ftp), don't replace <filename>/usr/local/bin/netscape</filename>
       with the new netscape binary; this is just a shell script that
-      sets up the environmental variables for you.  Instead rename the
+      sets up the environment variables for you.  Instead, rename the
       new binary to <filename>netscape.bin</filename> and replace the
       old binary, which is
-      <filename>/usr/local/lib/netscape/netscape.bin</filename>.</para>
+      <filename>/usr/local/netscape/netscape</filename>.</para>
   </sect1>
 
   <sect1>

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: kevlo 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jun 26 19:49:02 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Committed, thanks. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=19534 
>Unformatted:
