Tags: patch Please find enclosed a patch that fixes the problem reported (and solved) by Kevin Ryde. The patch should be applied to the uncompressed man page (from its directory), i.e. > gunzip gpg.1.gz > patch gpg.1 < gpg.1.patch
I also took the liberty of fixing a few obvious typos by running aspell on the man page, e.g. "RETURN VAUE" should be "RETURN VALUE". See the patch for details. Finally, I observed that a mixture of British and American spelling is used. In particular, "behaviour" is used six times and "behavior" is used eight times. As English is not my first language I chose not to do anything about it. The man page has also undergone some changes for version 1.4.7 (see bug #452118) so there seems to be little point in working too much on the current one. /Christer
--- gpg.1 2007-03-07 22:16:09.000000000 +0000 +++ new.gpg.1 2007-12-12 12:07:04.000000000 +0000 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ .SH COMMANDS -Commands are not distinguished from options execpt for the fact that +Commands are not distinguished from options except for the fact that only one command is allowed. \fBgpg\fR may be run with no commands, in which case it will @@ -149,9 +149,7 @@ signed stuff is expected in a file without the ".sig" or ".asc" extension. With more than 1 argument, the first should be a detached signature and the remaining files are the signed stuff. To read the -signed stuff from stdin, use -'-' - as the second filename. For +signed stuff from stdin, use '-' as the second filename. For security reasons a detached signature cannot read the signed material from stdin without denoting it in the above way. @@ -770,7 +768,7 @@ .SS How to change the configuration \ -These options are used to change the configuraton and are usually found +These options are used to change the configuration and are usually found in the option file. @@ -2488,13 +2486,13 @@ .TP .B --gpgconf-list -This command is simliar to \fB--list-config\fR but in general only +This command is similar to \fB--list-config\fR but in general only internally used by the \fBgpgconf\fR tool. .TP .B --gpgconf-test This is more or less dummy action. However it parses the configuration -file and returns with failure if the configuraion file would prevent +file and returns with failure if the configuration file would prevent \fBgpg\fR from startup. Thus it may be used to run a syntax check on the configuration file. @@ -2728,7 +2726,7 @@ .TP .B By exact match on serial number and issuer's DN. -This is indicated by a hash mark, followed by the hexadecmal +This is indicated by a hash mark, followed by the hexadecimal representation of the serial number, the followed by a slash and the RFC-2253 encoded DN of the issuer. See note above. @@ -2778,7 +2776,7 @@ -.SH RETURN VAUE +.SH RETURN VALUE The program returns 0 if everything was fine, 1 if at least a signature was bad, and other error codes for fatal errors. @@ -2850,7 +2848,7 @@ into the directory `\fI/etc/skel/.gnupg/\fR' so that newly created users start up with a working configuration. -For internal purposes \fBgpg\fR creates and maintaines a few other +For internal purposes \fBgpg\fR creates and maintains a few other files; They all live in in the current home directory (see: [option --homedir]). Only the \fBgpg\fR may modify these files.