Package: mtools Version: 3.9.9-2.1 Severity: minor Tags: patch
Found a few typos in '/usr/share/man/man1/mtools.1.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Versions of packages mtools depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- no debconf information
--- - 2005-04-21 04:21:04.507488000 -0400 +++ /tmp/mtools1.gz.14874 2005-04-21 04:21:04.502029599 -0400 @@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ doesn't exist for 20 sector formats. .PP These formats are supported by numerous DOS shareware utilities such as -\&\fR\&\f(CWfdformat\fR and \fR\&\f(CWvgacopy\fR. In his infinite hybris, Bill Gate$ +\&\fR\&\f(CWfdformat\fR and \fR\&\f(CWvgacopy\fR. In his infinite hubris, Bill Gate$ believed that he invented this, and called it \fR\&\f(CW\(ifDMF disks\(is\fR, or \&\fR\&\f(CW\(ifWindows formatted disks\(is\fR. But in reality, it has already existed years before! Mtools supports these formats on Linux, on SunOs and on @@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ The 2m format was originally invented by Ciriaco Garcia de Celis. It also uses bigger sectors than usual in order to fit more data on the disk. However, it uses the standard format (18 sectors of 512 bytes -each) on the first cylinder, in order to make these disks easyer to +each) on the first cylinder, in order to make these disks easier to handle by DOS. Indeed this method allows to have a standard sized bootsector, which contains a description of how the rest of the disk should be read.
