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authorPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2013-02-03 21:35:00 +1100
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2013-02-03 21:35:00 +1100
commit8dea1b969d266ccbf6f3a8c5474eb6dcd8838e3b (patch)
tree50bdd5d7303a2c1b9baa17fc2440267cbb7deefd /chat
parent3e3acf1ba2b3046c072a42c19164788a9e419bd1 (diff)
downloadppp-8dea1b969d266ccbf6f3a8c5474eb6dcd8838e3b.tar.gz
chat: Correct spelling errors in the man page
From Fedora patch. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'chat')
-rw-r--r--chat/chat.88
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/chat/chat.8 b/chat/chat.8
index b532292..1ed9df3 100644
--- a/chat/chat.8
+++ b/chat/chat.8
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ keyword. When echoing is enabled, all output from the modem is echoed
to \fIstderr\fR.
.TP
.B \-E
-Enables environment variable substituion within chat scripts using the
+Enables environment variable substitution within chat scripts using the
standard \fI$xxx\fR syntax.
.TP
.B \-v
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ SYSLOG. The use of \-S will prevent both log messages from '\-v' and
error messages from being sent to the SYSLOG.
.TP
.B \-T \fI<phone number>
-Pass in an arbitary string, usually a phone number, that will be
+Pass in an arbitrary string, usually a phone number, that will be
substituted for the \\T substitution metacharacter in a send string.
.TP
.B \-U \fI<phone number 2>
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ terminal), standard error will normally be redirected to the file
.LP
\fBSAY\fR strings must be enclosed in single or double quotes. If
carriage return and line feed are needed in the string to be output,
-you must explicitely add them to your string.
+you must explicitly add them to your string.
.LP
The SAY strings could be used to give progress messages in sections of
the script where you want to have 'ECHO OFF' but still let the user
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ For example, the character DC1 (17) is shown as \^^Q.
Environment variables are available within chat scripts, if the \fI\-E\fR
option was specified in the command line. The metacharacter \fI$\fR is used
to introduce the name of the environment variable to substitute. If the
-substition fails, because the requested environment variable is not set,
+substitution fails, because the requested environment variable is not set,
\fInothing\fR is replaced for the variable.
.SH TERMINATION CODES
The \fIchat\fR program will terminate with the following completion