Various grammar and word-smithing fixes from Gnats.

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Submitted by:	Jay Edwards <jayed@jayed.com>
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@ -239,7 +239,7 @@
<quote>at no cost</quote>, the other meaning <quote>you can do
whatever you like</quote>. Apart from one or two things you
<emphasis>cannot</emphasis> do with the FreeBSD code, for
example pretending you wrote it, you really can do whatever you
example pretending you wrote it, you can really do whatever you
like with it.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
@ -258,7 +258,7 @@
<para>Briefly, <emphasis>-STABLE</emphasis> is aimed
at the ISP, corporate user, or any user who wants stability and a
low change count over the wizzy new features of the latest
minimal number of changes compared to the new (and possibly unstable) features of the latest
<emphasis>-CURRENT</emphasis> snapshot. Releases can come
from either branch, but <emphasis>-CURRENT</emphasis>
should only be used if you are prepared for its increased volatility (relative to
@ -306,8 +306,8 @@
<para>Every day, <ulink
URL="../../../../releases/snapshots.html">snapshot
</ulink> releases are made based on the current state of the
-CURRENT and -STABLE branches. Nowadays, distributions of the
occasional snapshot are now being made available. The goals
-CURRENT and -STABLE branches. Distributions of the
occasional snapshot are made available. The goals
behind each snapshot release are:</para>
<itemizedlist>
@ -331,7 +331,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>To ensure that any new features in need of testing
<para>To ensure that all new features and fixes in need of testing
have the greatest possible number of potential
testers.</para>
</listitem>
@ -351,7 +351,7 @@
3-STABLE snapshots are not being produced at the time of
this writing (May 2000).</para>
<para>Snapshots are generated, on the average, once a day for
<para>Snapshots are generated, on the average, daily for
all actively developed branches.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
@ -439,7 +439,7 @@
that the addition of new features does not compromise the
stability of the release.
Many users regard this caution as one of the best
things about FreeBSD, although
things about FreeBSD, even though
waiting for all the latest goodies to reach -STABLE
can be a little frustrating.</para>
@ -450,7 +450,7 @@
engineering</ulink> pages on the FreeBSD Web site.</para>
<para>For people who need or want a little more excitement,
binary snapshots are made every day as discussed above.</para>
binary snapshots are made daily as discussed above.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
@ -504,13 +504,13 @@
<listitem>
<para><ulink
URL="ftp://releng4.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">4.X
snapshots</ulink> are usually made once a day.</para>
snapshots</ulink> are usually made daily.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><ulink
URL="ftp://current.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">
5.0 Snapshot</ulink> releases are made once a day for the
5.0 Snapshot</ulink> releases are made daily for the
<link linkend="current">-CURRENT</link> branch, these being
of service purely to bleeding-edge testers and
developers.</para>
@ -3898,7 +3898,7 @@ quit</programlisting>
</question>
<answer>
<para>This can be caused by various hardware and/or software
<para>This can be caused by various hardware or software
ailments relating to interrupts. It may be due to bugs but can
also happen by nature of certain devices. Running TCP/IP over
the parallel port using a large MTU is one good way to provoke
@ -5719,7 +5719,7 @@ C:\="DOS"</programlisting>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>dd if=/dev/rda0a of=/mnt/bootsect.bsd bs=512 count=1</userinput></screen>
<para>Reboot into DOS or NT. NTFS users copy the
<filename>bootsect.bsd</filename> and/or the
<filename>bootsect.bsd</filename> or the
<filename>bootsect.lnx</filename> file from the floppy to
<filename>C:\</filename>. Modify the attributes (permissions)
on <filename>boot.ini</filename> with:</para>
@ -11096,7 +11096,7 @@ raisechar=^^</programlisting>
usefulness was stretched more and more with each new feature.
In addition, people wanted to dynamically load things at run
time, or to junk parts of their program after the init code had
run to save in core memory and/or swap space. Languages became
run to save in core memory and swap space. Languages became
more sophisticated and people wanted code called before main
automatically. Lots of hacks were done to the
<filename>a.out</filename> format to allow all of these things