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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2014-01-01 16:15:14 +1300 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2014-01-02 11:49:16 +1300 |
| commit | 88879aebdd952edd138b118249a585b0cb33d6ea (patch) | |
| tree | 89b7ff974da2c6d77a19d2dfe60231f737b737aa /man7 | |
| parent | 5aecfe9017f0e0ee07bbfc00c752d9cc27138aa0 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-88879aebdd952edd138b118249a585b0cb33d6ea.tar.gz | |
eventfd.2, set_mempolicy.2, timerfd_create.2, fwide.3, resolver.3, spufs.7, symlink.7, udplite.7, unicode.7: Replace uses of "i.e.," in main text with "that is" or similar
Usual man-pages style is to use "i.e." only within
parenthetical expressions.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/spufs.7 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/symlink.7 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/udplite.7 | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/unicode.7 | 5 |
4 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/man7/spufs.7 b/man7/spufs.7 index 037c55885f..c8384a012f 100644 --- a/man7/spufs.7 +++ b/man7/spufs.7 @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ whenever space is available for writing. .TP .IR /mbox_stat ", " /ibox_stat ", " /wbox_stat These are read-only files that contain the length of the current -queue of each mailbox, i.e., how many words can be read from +queue of each mailbox\(emthat is, how many words can be read from .IR mbox " or " ibox or how many words can be written to .I wbox diff --git a/man7/symlink.7 b/man7/symlink.7 index 236b88bff7..18948b3a01 100644 --- a/man7/symlink.7 +++ b/man7/symlink.7 @@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ The command is also an exception to this rule. For compatibility with historic systems (when .BR ls (1) -is not doing a tree walk, i.e., the +is not doing a tree walk\(emthat is, .I \-R option is not specified), the diff --git a/man7/udplite.7 b/man7/udplite.7 index 5c89c593b1..b951c104be 100644 --- a/man7/udplite.7 +++ b/man7/udplite.7 @@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ If this option is not set, the only difference to UDP is in using a different IP protocol identifier (IANA number 136). The UDP-Lite implementation is a full extension of -.BR udp (7), -i.e., it shares the same API and API behaviour, and in addition +.BR udp (7)\(emthat +is, it shares the same API and API behaviour, and in addition offers two socket options to control the checksum coverage. .SS Address format UDP-Litev4 uses the diff --git a/man7/unicode.7 b/man7/unicode.7 index f143e9d86a..a9d1d4df63 100644 --- a/man7/unicode.7 +++ b/man7/unicode.7 @@ -36,8 +36,9 @@ defines the .BR "Universal Character Set (UCS)" . UCS contains all characters of all other character set standards. It also guarantees -.BR "round-trip compatibility" , -i.e., conversion tables can be built such that no information is lost +.BR "round-trip compatibility"; +in other words, +conversion tables can be built such that no information is lost when a string is converted from any other encoding to UCS and back. UCS contains the characters required to represent practically all |