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authorBenno Schulenberg2013-10-03 13:05:43 +0200
committerKarel Zak2013-10-04 11:56:59 +0200
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parentlibfdisk: improve spelling of two comments (diff)
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docs: tweak the grammar of an agetty man-page fragment
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
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diff --git a/term-utils/agetty.8 b/term-utils/agetty.8
index d77955573..ad0bfa02b 100644
--- a/term-utils/agetty.8
+++ b/term-utils/agetty.8
@@ -144,14 +144,14 @@ Control the CLOCAL line flag. The optional \fImode\fP argument is 'auto', 'alwa
If the \fImode\fP argument is omitted, then the default is 'always'. If the
\-\-local\-line option is not given at all, then the default is 'auto'.
-The \fImode\fP 'always' forces the line to be a local line with no need for carrier detect. This can
-be useful when you have a locally attached terminal where the serial line
+The \fImode\fP 'always' forces the line to be a local line with no need for carrier detect.
+This can be useful when you have a locally attached terminal where the serial line
does not set the carrier-detect signal.
-The \fImode\fP 'never' explicitly clears CLOCAL flags from line setting and
+The \fImode\fP 'never' explicitly clears the CLOCAL flag from the line setting and
the carrier-detect signal is expected on the line.
-The \fImode\fP 'auto' (agetty default) does not modify CLOCAL setting
+The \fImode\fP 'auto' (agetty default) does not modify the CLOCAL setting
and follows the setting enabled by the kernel.
.TP
\-m, \-\-extract\-baud