Hi,
I noticed a typo in one of the translatable strings ('T' not preceeded
by 'R'), which should be "preceded".
The attached patch against git master fixes all occurrences of this
spelling, along with some other typos I found in the documentation at
the same time.
Regards,
Anders Jonsson
From ca94a2224dede8a5e07f0e36825ad0cf0f9f6ec5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anders Jonsson <anders.jons...@norsjovallen.se>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 13:25:03 +0200
Subject: Fix typos (preceeded etc.)
---
ChangeLog.1 | 2 +-
doc/snapshot.texi | 2 +-
doc/tar.texi | 16 ++++++++--------
src/incremen.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog.1 b/ChangeLog.1
index db84a07..5e17374 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.1
+++ b/ChangeLog.1
@@ -3186,7 +3186,7 @@ along with this program. If not, see
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
Reported by Jeffrey Goldberg.
* rmt.h (_remdev): A filename is not remote if the colon is
- preceeded by a slash, to take care of `/:/' which is a shorthand
+ preceded by a slash, to take care of `/:/' which is a shorthand
for `/.../<CELL-NAME>/fs' on OSF's Distributing Computing
Environment (DCE) and Distributed File System (DFS).
Reported by Travis L. Priest.
diff --git a/doc/snapshot.texi b/doc/snapshot.texi
index f57e55f..6e72df9 100644
--- a/doc/snapshot.texi
+++ b/doc/snapshot.texi
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ epoch. These are followed by arbitrary number of directory
records.
particular directory. Parts of a directory record are delimited with
@acronym{ASCII} 0 characters. The following table describes each
part. The @dfn{Number} type in this table stands for a decimal integer
-in @acronym{ASCII} notation. (Negative values are preceeded with a "-"
+in @acronym{ASCII} notation. (Negative values are preceded with a "-"
character, while positive values have no leading punctuation.)
@multitable @columnfractions 0.25 0.15 0.6
diff --git a/doc/tar.texi b/doc/tar.texi
index 9cff066..fc3d046 100644
--- a/doc/tar.texi
+++ b/doc/tar.texi
@@ -7416,7 +7416,7 @@ However, empty lines are OK.
When archiving directories that are under some version control system (VCS),
it is often convenient to read exclusion patterns from this VCS'
ignore files (e.g. @file{.cvsignore}, @file{.gitignore}, etc.) The
-following options provide such possibilty:
+following options provide such possibility:
@table @option
@anchor{exclude-vcs-ignores}
@@ -8358,7 +8358,7 @@ Apply transformation to hard link targets.
Do not apply transformation to hard link targets.
@end table
-Default is @samp{rsh}, which means to apply tranformations to both archive
+Default is @samp{rsh}, which means to apply transformations to both archive
members and targets of symbolic and hard links.
Default scope flags can also be changed using @samp{flags=} statement
@@ -9473,7 +9473,7 @@ Using @option{--sparse-format} option implies
@option{--sparse}.
@node Attributes
@section Handling File Attributes
-@cindex atrributes, files
+@cindex attributes, files
@cindex file attributes
When @command{tar} reads files, it updates their access times. To
@@ -9744,7 +9744,7 @@ Although creating special records for hard links helps
keep a faithful
record of the file system contents and makes archives more compact, it
may present some difficulties when extracting individual members from
the archive. For example, trying to extract file @file{one} from the
-archive created in previous examples produces, in the absense of file
+archive created in previous examples produces, in the absence of file
@file{jeden}:
@smallexample
@@ -10132,7 +10132,7 @@ describe the required procedures in detail.
@node Split Recovery
@subsubsection Extracting Members Split Between Volumes
-@cindex Mutli-volume archives, extracting using non-GNU tars
+@cindex Multi-volume archives, extracting using non-GNU tars
If a member is split between several volumes of an old GNU format archive
most third party @command{tar} implementation will fail to extract
it. To extract it, use @command{tarcat} program (@pxref{Tarcat}).
@@ -10147,7 +10147,7 @@ extract them using a third-party @command{tar}:
$ @kbd{tarcat vol-1.tar vol-2.tar vol-3.tar | tar xf -}
@end smallexample
-@cindex Mutli-volume archives in PAX format, extracting using non-GNU tars
+@cindex Multi-volume archives in PAX format, extracting using non-GNU tars
You could use this approach for most (although not all) PAX
format archives as well. However, extracting split members from a PAX
archive is a much easier task, because PAX volumes are constructed in
@@ -10161,7 +10161,7 @@ original name, and all subsequent parts are named using
the pattern:
@end smallexample
@noindent
-where symbols preceeded by @samp{%} are @dfn{macro characters} that
+where symbols preceded by @samp{%} are @dfn{macro characters} that
have the following meaning:
@multitable @columnfractions .25 .55
@@ -10320,7 +10320,7 @@ $ @kbd{xsparse /home/gray/GNUSparseFile.6058/sparsefile}
@noindent
The program behaves the same way all UNIX utilities do: it will keep
-quiet unless it has simething important to tell you (e.g. an error
+quiet unless it has something important to tell you (e.g. an error
condition or something). If you wish it to produce verbose output,
similar to that from the dry run mode, use @option{-v} option:
diff --git a/src/incremen.c b/src/incremen.c
index e549bbd..d73a7bb 100644
--- a/src/incremen.c
+++ b/src/incremen.c
@@ -1582,7 +1582,7 @@ dumpdir_ok (char *dumpdir)
if (expect != 'T')
{
ERROR ((0, 0,
- _("Malformed dumpdir: 'T' not preceeded by 'R'")));
+ _("Malformed dumpdir: 'T' not preceded by 'R'")));
return false;
}
if (p[1] == 0 && !has_tempdir)
--
2.1.4
