- MAN PAGE corrections from proofreader

John J. Kane jkane89@softhome.net
Sun, 05 Nov 2000 13:58:00 -0500


Proofreading 'gpg.man' in English --
Proofreading by a native speaker with good grammar skills.
These corrections are based on the ver.1.0.4 'gpg.man'.

Please give this to the documentation editor.  I am not on
the lists, but can be reached at <jkane89@softhome.net>.




In 'DESCRIPTION':
 "This man page  does only list"  should read
 "This man page  only lists "

--symmetric
 "Encrypt with symmetric cipher only   This"  should read
 " only. "

--verify-files
 "the files to  bee verified"  should read
 " be "

 "each  anem muts  be on  separate line."  should read
 "each  name must  be on a separate line."


--gen-key
 " only used interactive."  should read
 " interactively. "

 "experimental feature which allows  to create"  should read
 " allows you to "


--edit-key  // deluid
 "an user id."  should read
 "a  user id."

--sign-key
 "you  secret key."  should read
 "your secret key."

--lsign-key
 "you  secret key."  should read
 "your secret key."

--trusted-key
 "still be able to check"  should read
 "still want the ability to check" or
 "still want to be able to check" or
 "still want to check"

--export-all
 " does also export ... compatible  to  OpenPGP"  should read
 " also exports   ...  compatible  with  OpenPGP"


--export-secret-keys
 " but does export the secret keys. " is ambiguous; try
EITHER  " but also exports the secret keys. "
    OR  " but exports the secret keys instead. "

 "security risk.  the second form"  should read
 " The "

 "can not be expected to successful import"  should read
 " successfully "


--fast-import
 "the --merge-only  options "  should read
 " option "

--export-ownertrust
 "for backup purposes "  should read
 " purposes. "

--gen-random
 "doing, it may remove"  should read
 "doing; it may remove"  (semicolon)

--help
 "even  it does list  not all options."  should read
 "even though it doesn't list all options."

--default-recipient
 "a valid one. n ame must be a non empty. "  should read
 "a valid one.  Name must be  non-empty. "


--encrypt-to
 "intended for  in the options file"  should read
 "intended for use in the options file"

 "may be used together with an own user-id"  perhaps
 "with your own user-id"   ?


--no-tty
 "to the TTY   if if   --batch is used"
 :-)

--no-auto-key-retrieve
 "allows  to keep  ...   or the  ... commands."  should read
 "allows you to keep ... for the ... commands."

--no-utf8-strings
 "These options effects all following arguments."  should read
 "These options affect all ..."

--command-fd
 "the depreciated shared-memory IPC mode"  should read
 " deprecated "

--force-v3-sigs
 "This options forces v3 signatures"  should read
 "This option ..."

--force-mdc
 "always used with the newer  cipher"  should read
 " ciphers "

--ignore-crc-error
 "This options will let gpg"  should read
 "This option ..."

--no-random-seed-file
 "to store it's internal random pool"  should read
 " its "

--list-only
 "Currently it does only skip"  should read
 "Currently it only skips"

--emulate-md-encode-bug
 "the way a signature was encode."  should read
 " encoded. "


In the 'How to specify a user ID' section, remove the line:
 "Used to locate the default home directory."


In 'BUGS':
 "3our operating system"  should read
 "your operating system"



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