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.
