Re: [patch] hosts.5, protocols.5, spufs.7, termio.7: Uniform description (Was: armscii-8.7, koi8-r.7, koi8-u.7, unicode.7)

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Hello David,

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:38 PM, David Prévot <davidp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
>> All changes are now pushed to git; you may wish to check.
>
> Seems fine, thanks.
>
>> Thanks. Applied for 3.30. I prefer without "the", and made that change also.
>
> Agreed. Please find inline another tiny patch in order to shrink the definite
> article from some other pages (found with “rgrep -i ' \\\- the' man*/”).

Thanks. Applied for 3.30.

Michael


> diff --git a/man5/hosts.5 b/man5/hosts.5
> index cb9b253..513a4e3 100644
> --- a/man5/hosts.5
> +++ b/man5/hosts.5
> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
>  .\"
>  .TH HOSTS 5 2002-06-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
>  .SH NAME
> -hosts \- The static table lookup for hostnames
> +hosts \- static table lookup for hostnames
>  .SH SYNOPSIS
>  .B /etc/hosts
>  .SH DESCRIPTION
> diff --git a/man5/protocols.5 b/man5/protocols.5
> index d414093..9c644f7 100644
> --- a/man5/protocols.5
> +++ b/man5/protocols.5
> @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
>  .\"
>  .TH PROTOCOLS 5 2008-09-23 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
>  .SH NAME
> -protocols \- the protocols definition file
> +protocols \- protocols definition file
>  .SH DESCRIPTION
>  This file is a plain ASCII file, describing the various DARPA internet
>  protocols that are available from the TCP/IP subsystem.
> diff --git a/man7/spufs.7 b/man7/spufs.7
> index 64c4357..ee65298 100644
> --- a/man7/spufs.7
> +++ b/man7/spufs.7
> @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
>  .\"
>  .TH SPUFS 7 2007-12-20 Linux "Linux Programmer's Manual"
>  .SH NAME
> -spufs \- the SPU file system
> +spufs \- SPU file system
>  .SH DESCRIPTION
>  The SPU file system is used on PowerPC machines that implement the
>  Cell Broadband Engine Architecture in order to access Synergistic
> diff --git a/man7/termio.7 b/man7/termio.7
> index d6c20c0..bfa9003 100644
> --- a/man7/termio.7
> +++ b/man7/termio.7
> @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
>  .\"
>  .TH TERMIO 7 2006-12-28 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
>  .SH NAME
> -termio \- the System V terminal driver interface
> +termio \- System V terminal driver interface
>  .SH DESCRIPTION
>  .B termio
>  is the name of the old System V terminal driver interface.
>
>
> Cheers
>
> David
>
>
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