From f71ae47f2496a586f456abfb9b81f8e5f195e254 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Mohr Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 22:09:55 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] - spelling corrections - properly document how to set the DOS PATH --- documentation/configuring.sgml | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- documentation/getting.sgml | 8 ++++---- documentation/introduction.sgml | 4 ++-- documentation/running.sgml | 11 +++++++++++ 4 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) diff --git a/documentation/configuring.sgml b/documentation/configuring.sgml index b7a7534ce70..c42093a1e50 100644 --- a/documentation/configuring.sgml +++ b/documentation/configuring.sgml @@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ And here is a setup for Drive A, a generic floppy drive: - + The [wine] Section The [wine] section of the configuration file contains all kinds @@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ And here is a setup for Drive A, a generic floppy drive: 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 @@ And here is a setup for Drive A, a generic floppy drive: builtin 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. @@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ OPTIONAL: The [serialports] section tells wine what serial ports it is allowed to use. - "ComX" = "/dev/cuaY" + "ComX" = "/dev/ttySY" Replace X with the number of the COM @@ -753,7 +753,7 @@ OPTIONAL: (/dev/modem is acceptable). It is not always necessary to define any COM ports (An optional setting). Here is an example: - "Com1" = "/dev/cua0" + "Com1" = "/dev/ttyS0" Use as many of these as you like in the section to define @@ -771,7 +771,7 @@ OPTIONAL: 0-3 (Y 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 /dev/printer). Here is an example: "Lpt1" = "/dev/lp0" @@ -815,7 +815,7 @@ OPTIONAL: [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 --debugmsg +relay option.) @@ -894,7 +894,7 @@ OPTIONAL: [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. @@ -952,7 +952,7 @@ OPTIONAL: 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 hostname, up to and not + of the shell command hostname, 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. @@ -961,7 +961,7 @@ OPTIONAL: 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. @@ -983,11 +983,11 @@ OPTIONAL: The three parts of the section name are separated by two backslashes. - 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. - Here is an example that overwrites the normal settings for a + Here is an example that overrides the normal settings for a program: ;; default settings @@ -1042,8 +1042,8 @@ OPTIONAL: Wine Bugzilla, try the newsgroup comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine, - or the IRCnet channel #WineHQ found on - irc.stealth.net:6668, or connected servers. + or the IRC channel #WineHQ found on + irc.openprojects.net, or connected servers. Make sure that you have looked over this document thoroughly, and have also read: @@ -1078,7 +1078,7 @@ OPTIONAL: 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 @@ OPTIONAL: 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). @@ -1130,7 +1130,7 @@ OPTIONAL: Unmanaged/Normal - 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 diff --git a/documentation/getting.sgml b/documentation/getting.sgml index ad6f5e05a0e..d0bd851c138 100644 --- a/documentation/getting.sgml +++ b/documentation/getting.sgml @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Often a package will only work on the distribution it's compiled for. We'll cover Debian, - Redhat, and + Red Hat, and other distributions. @@ -109,10 +109,10 @@ Password: - Getting Wine for a Redhat System + Getting Wine for a Red Hat System - Redhat/RPM users can use + Red Hat/RPM users can use rpmfind.net to track down available Wine RPM binaries. This page contains a list of all rpmfind packages that start with @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ Password: The first place you should look if your system isn't Debian or - Redhat is the WineHQ Download Page. This page lists many assorted archives of binary (precompiled) Wine files. diff --git a/documentation/introduction.sgml b/documentation/introduction.sgml index 886711f3dcb..b6b7a0b731e 100644 --- a/documentation/introduction.sgml +++ b/documentation/introduction.sgml @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ Wine's Bugzilla 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 ! @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ A computer ;-) Wine: only PCs >= i386 are supported at the moment. - Winelib: other platforms may be supported, but can be tricky. + Winelib: selected other platforms are supported, but can be tricky. diff --git a/documentation/running.sgml b/documentation/running.sgml index 05ca587b53e..55b83709046 100644 --- a/documentation/running.sgml +++ b/documentation/running.sgml @@ -296,6 +296,17 @@ winspoolwnetx11 place the setting into /etc/profile, or also ~/.bashrc in the case of bash. + + 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 [wine] section. + + -- 2.11.4.GIT