docu patch
Andreas Mohr
andi at rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de
Sun Dec 15 07:14:53 CST 2002
Hi all,
- correct cuaX to ttySX (ugh !!!)
- BAD spelling corrections
- correct IRC channel
- Redhat -> "Red Hat"
- properly document how to set the DOS PATH
Index: documentation/configuring.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/wine/wine/documentation/configuring.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -r1.19 configuring.sgml
--- documentation/configuring.sgml 15 Nov 2002 01:01:48 -0000 1.19
+++ documentation/configuring.sgml 15 Dec 2002 13:16:28 -0000
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@
</para>
</sect3>
- <sect3>
+ <sect3 id="config_wine">
<title>The [wine] Section </title>
<para>
The [wine] section of the configuration file contains all kinds
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@
at all.
Using these things are pretty alpha, so you might want to
watch out. Some people might find it useful, however. If
- you're not planning on working on printing via windows printer
+ you're not planning to work on printing via windows printer
drivers, don't even add this to your wine config file
(It probably isn't already in it).
Check out the [spooler] and [parallelports] sections too.
@@ -529,9 +529,9 @@
<term>builtin</term>
<listitem><para>
The most common form of DLL loading. This is
- what you will use if the DLL is error-prone in
- native form (KERNEL for example), you don't have
- the native DLL, or you just want to be
+ what you will use if the DLL is to system-specific
+ or error-prone in native form (KERNEL for example),
+ you don't have the native DLL, or you just want to be
Microsoft-free.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -742,7 +742,7 @@
<para>
The [serialports] section tells wine what serial ports it
is allowed to use.
- <programlisting>"ComX" = "/dev/cuaY"</programlisting>
+ <programlisting>"ComX" = "/dev/ttySY"</programlisting>
</para>
<para>
Replace <literal>X</literal> with the number of the COM
@@ -753,7 +753,7 @@
(<medialabel>/dev/modem</medialabel> is acceptable). It is
not always necessary to define any COM ports (An optional
setting). Here is an example:
- <programlisting>"Com1" = "/dev/cua0"</programlisting>
+ <programlisting>"Com1" = "/dev/ttyS0"</programlisting>
</para>
<para>
Use as many of these as you like in the section to define
@@ -771,7 +771,7 @@
0-3 (<literal>Y</literal> is usually the value in windows
minus 1, just like for COM ports). You don't always need
to define a parallel port (AKA, it's optional). As with
- the other section, LptX can equal any device (Maybe
+ the other section, LptX can equal any device (Maybe
<medialabel>/dev/printer</medialabel>). Here is an
example: <programlisting>"Lpt1" = "/dev/lp0"</programlisting>
</para>
@@ -815,7 +815,7 @@
[Debug] is used to include or exclude debug messages, and to
output them to a file. The latter is rarely used. THESE
ARE ALL OPTIONAL AND YOU PROBABLY DON'T NEED TO ADD OR
- REMOVE ANYTHING IN THIS SECTION TO YOUR CONFIG. (In extreme
+ REMOVE ANYTHING IN THIS SECTION TO YOUR CONFIG. (In extreme
cases you may want to use these options to manage the amount
of information generated by the <parameter>--debugmsg +relay
</parameter> option.)
@@ -894,7 +894,7 @@
<para>
[WinMM] is used to define which multimedia drivers have to be loaded. Since
those drivers may depend on the multimedia interfaces available on your system
- (OSS, Alsa... to name a few), it's needed to be able to configure which driver
+ (OSS, ALSA... to name a few), it's needed to be able to configure which driver
has to be loaded.
</para>
@@ -952,7 +952,7 @@
If this option is set to "Y" or missing, Wine will set the
NetBIOS name to the Unix host name of your computer, if
necessary truncated to 31 characters. The Unix hostname is the output
- of the shell command <command>hostname</command>, up to and not
+ of the shell command <command>hostname</command>, up to but not
including the first dot ('.'). Among other things, this means that
Windows programs running under Wine cannot change the NetBIOS computer name.
</para>
@@ -961,7 +961,7 @@
to set the NetBIOS name. Only if the registry entry doesn't exist (usually
only during the first wine startup) it will use the Unix hostname as
usual. Windows applications can change the NetBIOS name. The change
- will be effective after a "Reboot", i.e. after restarting Wine.
+ will be effective after a "reboot", i.e. after restarting Wine.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -983,11 +983,11 @@
The three parts of the section name are separated by two backslashes.
</para>
<para>
- Currently wine supports only overwriting the sections
- [DllOverrides], [x11drv], [version] and [dsound].
+ Currently wine supports overriding selected settings within
+ the sections [DllOverrides], [x11drv], [version] and [dsound] only.
</para>
<para>
- Here is an example that overwrites the normal settings for a
+ Here is an example that overrides the normal settings for a
program:
<programlisting>
;; default settings
@@ -1042,8 +1042,8 @@
<ulink url="http://bugs.winehq.com/">Wine Bugzilla</ulink>,
try the newsgroup
<systemitem>comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine</systemitem>,
- or the IRCnet channel <systemitem>#WineHQ</systemitem> found on
- irc.stealth.net:6668, or connected servers.
+ or the IRC channel <systemitem>#WineHQ</systemitem> found on
+ irc.openprojects.net, or connected servers.
Make sure that you have looked over this document thoroughly,
and have also read:
</para>
@@ -1078,7 +1078,7 @@
<para>
Most Wine users run Wine under the windowing system known as
X11. During most of Wine's history, this was the only display
- driver available, but in recent years, parts of Wine has been
+ driver available, but in recent years, parts of Wine have been
reorganized to allow for other display drivers (although the
only alternative currently available is Patrik Stridvall's
ncurses-based ttydrv, which he claims works for displaying
@@ -1119,10 +1119,10 @@
title bars, and system menus will be managed by your
window manager. This lets these applications integrate
better with the rest of your desktop, but may not
- always work perfectly. (A rewrite of this mode of
+ always work perfectly (a rewrite of this mode of
operation, to make it more robust and less patchy, is
currently being done, though, and it's planned to be
- finished before the Wine 1.0 release.)
+ finished before the Wine 1.0 release).
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -1130,7 +1130,7 @@
<term>Unmanaged/Normal</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Window-manager-independent (any running
+ Window manager independent (any running
window manager is ignored completely). Window
decorations (title bars, borders, etc) are drawn by
Wine to look and feel like the real Windows. This is
Index: documentation/getting.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/wine/wine/documentation/getting.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -r1.7 getting.sgml
--- documentation/getting.sgml 13 Dec 2002 00:33:26 -0000 1.7
+++ documentation/getting.sgml 15 Dec 2002 13:16:28 -0000
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
Often a package will only work on the distribution it's
compiled for. We'll cover
<link linkend="getting-dist-debian">Debian</link>,
- <link linkend="getting-dist-redhat">Redhat</link>, and
+ <link linkend="getting-dist-redhat">Red Hat</link>, and
<link linkend="getting-dist-other">other</link> distributions.
</para>
<para>
@@ -109,10 +109,10 @@
</sect1>
<sect1 id="getting-dist-redhat">
- <title>Getting Wine for a Redhat System</title>
+ <title>Getting Wine for a Red Hat System</title>
<para>
- Redhat/RPM users can use <ulink url="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/">
+ Red Hat/RPM users can use <ulink url="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/">
rpmfind.net</ulink> to track down available Wine RPM binaries.
<ulink url="http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/WByName.html"> This
page</ulink> contains a list of all rpmfind packages that start with
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@
<para>
The first place you should look if your system isn't Debian or
- Redhat is the <ulink
+ Red Hat is the <ulink
url="http://www.winehq.com/download/">WineHQ Download
Page</ulink>. This page lists many assorted archives of
binary (precompiled) Wine files.
Index: documentation/introduction.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/wine/wine/documentation/introduction.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 introduction.sgml
--- documentation/introduction.sgml 12 Nov 2002 02:14:52 -0000 1.6
+++ documentation/introduction.sgml 15 Dec 2002 13:16:28 -0000
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
<ulink url="http://bugs.winehq.com/">Wine's Bugzilla</ulink> to
let us know how this document can be improved. Remember, Open
Source is "free as in free speech, not as in free beer": it can
- only work in the case of very active involvement by its users !
+ only work in the case of very active involvement of its users !
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@
<para>
<literallayout>A computer ;-)</literallayout>
<literallayout> Wine: only PCs >= i386 are supported at the moment.</literallayout>
- <literallayout> Winelib: other platforms may be supported, but can be tricky.</literallayout>
+ <literallayout> Winelib: selected other platforms are supported, but can be tricky.</literallayout>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
Index: documentation/running.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/wine/wine/documentation/running.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -r1.13 running.sgml
--- documentation/running.sgml 19 Oct 2002 01:00:04 -0000 1.13
+++ documentation/running.sgml 15 Dec 2002 13:16:29 -0000
@@ -296,6 +296,17 @@
place the setting into /etc/profile, or also ~/.bashrc in the case of
bash.
</para>
+ <para>
+ Note however that there is an exception to the rule:
+ If you want to change the PATH environment variable, then of
+ course you can't modify it that way, since this will alter the
+ Unix PATH environment setting. Instead, you should set the
+ WINEPATH environment variable. An alternative way to
+ indicate the content of the DOS PATH environment variable would
+ be to change the "path" setting in the wine config file's <link
+ linkend="config_wine">[wine]</link> section.
+ </para>
+
</sect1>
</chapter>
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