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authorkris <kris@FreeBSD.org>1999-05-12 13:48:47 +0000
committerkris <kris@FreeBSD.org>1999-05-12 13:48:47 +0000
commita3fe4dbbe80d5cb26a8d66788755a9fba80428d7 (patch)
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parent0677c03994ab44eda40fea2e0728b79f24cbdd2f (diff)
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Grammatical fixes.
Obtained from: OpenBSD
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/ln')
-rw-r--r--bin/ln/ln.110
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/bin/ln/ln.1 b/bin/ln/ln.1
index 586401b..19c63d2 100644
--- a/bin/ln/ln.1
+++ b/bin/ln/ln.1
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" @(#)ln.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/30/93
-.\" $Id: ln.1,v 1.5 1997/02/22 14:03:48 peter Exp $
+.\" $Id: ln.1,v 1.6 1998/05/15 06:19:02 charnier Exp $
.\"
.Dd December 30, 1993
.Dt LN 1
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ to the original copy.
There are two types of links; hard links and symbolic links.
How a link
.Dq points
-to a file is one of the differences between a hard or symbolic link.
+to a file is one of the differences between a hard and symbolic link.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width flag
@@ -74,13 +74,13 @@ Unlink any already existing file, permitting the link to occur.
Create a symbolic link.
.El
.Pp
-By default
+By default,
.Nm
makes
.Em hard
links.
A hard link to a file is indistinguishable from the original directory entry;
-any changes to a file are effective independent of the name used to reference
+any changes to a file are effectively independent of the name used to reference
the file.
Hard links may not normally refer to directories and may not span file systems.
.Pp
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ The links made will have the same name as the files being linked to.
.Xr symlink 2 ,
.Xr symlink 7
.Sh HISTORY
-A
+An
.Nm
command appeared in
.At v1 .
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