I ran all the files in Documentation/ through a spell-checker, picked out
suspicious-looking words from the list it generated, then reviewed all
files in the entire source tree which contained those words. In all there
were 816 files I felt like diddling with.
Larry Doolittle tried to instruct me on the usage of "hopefully". I
changed the instance which had been annoying him, and a few other
instances.
I changed a few places in Configure.help where people were advised to "say
'Y' to" CONFIG_ISO9660_FS. It can now be made modular, so the advice
seemed outdated. I removed duplicate sections for CONFIG_ATOMWIDE_SERIAL
and CONFIG_DUALSP_SERIAL.
A couple of people expressed their displeasure at the idea of making
"harddrive" and the like into phrases. In my part of the world the
phrases are used so much more commonly that the compound words just look
wrong. Many of the terms I changed are mentioned in what looks like
Linus' note to himself in Configure.help:
# A couple of things I keep forgetting:
# capitalize: AppleTalk, Ethernet, DMA, FTP, Internet, Intel, IRQ,
# Linux, NetWare, NFS, PCI, SCSI
# two words: hard drive, hard disk, sound card
# other: it's safe to save; daemon
Here are online references for some other terms I changed, most of which
just have obnoxious cApItAlIzAtIon:
http://www.xerox.com/XSI/xsicat.html
(Ethernet)
http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1996/q2/960329.pr.rel.internet.html
(AppleTalk, EtherTalk and LocalTalk)
http://www.glencove.com/glossary.htm
(ARCnet)
http://www.intel.com/network/ee100/index.htm
(EtherExpress PRO/100)
http://www.realaudio.com/
(RealAudio)
http://wws.mathematik.hu-berlin.de/ldr/ISDN/isdn4linux/isdn4.199604/0777.html
(Alexander Strauss)
http://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1559.txt
(DECnet)
I plan to split this up and offer it to the various maintainers, but would
like folks to review it as a whole first.
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Trevor Johnson
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