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From: Dan Church <amphetamachine@gmail.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix some wording in qemu.1
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 14:38:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTimOPWtCcONkiGcPHu8F0NtSB2_CWg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

It was apparent that some parts of the man page were written by
non-native English speaker(s), so I figured I'd help out somewhat:

--- qemu/qemu.1.orig	2011-04-16 14:33:06.000000000 -0500
+++ qemu/qemu.1	2011-04-16 14:36:38.000000000 -0500
@@ -271,11 +271,11 @@
 Available types are: ide, scsi, sd, mtd, floppy, pflash, virtio.
 .IP "\fBbus=\fR\fIbus\fR\fB,unit=\fR\fIunit\fR" 4
 .IX Item "bus=bus,unit=unit"
-These options define where is connected the drive by defining the bus
number and
+These options define where the drive by is connected defining the bus
number and
 the unit id.
 .IP "\fBindex=\fR\fIindex\fR" 4
 .IX Item "index=index"
-This option defines where is connected the drive by using an index in the list
+This option defines where the drive is connected by using an index in the list
 of available connectors of a given interface type.
 .IP "\fBmedia=\fR\fImedia\fR" 4
 .IX Item "media=media"
@@ -376,10 +376,10 @@
 incremented:
 .Sp
 .Vb 1
-\&        qemu \-drive file=a \-drive file=b"
+\&        qemu \-drive file=a \-drive file=b
 .Ve
 .Sp
-is interpreted like:
+is interpreted as:
 .Sp
 .Vb 1
 \&        qemu \-hda a \-hdb b


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             reply	other threads:[~2011-04-16 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-16 19:38 Dan Church [this message]
2011-04-16 20:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix some wording in qemu.1 Stefan Weil
2011-04-17  1:25   ` Dan Church
2011-04-17  5:54     ` Stefan Weil

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