From a1facdb03589276fa4d1d2542055bfac21191bc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Leschnik Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 22:51:48 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] fix minor typos in Modem-HOWTO.sgml --- LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Modem-HOWTO.sgml | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Modem-HOWTO.sgml b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Modem-HOWTO.sgml index 91a6cf0b..e0e853ab 100644 --- a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Modem-HOWTO.sgml +++ b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Modem-HOWTO.sgml @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ not in the trademark sense. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners. Credits -

The following is only a rough approximation of how this this +

The following is only a rough approximation of how this document was created in the year 2000: About 1/4 of the material here was lifted directly from Serial-HOWTO v. 1.11 (1997) by Greg Hankins. (with his permission). About @@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ external USB. The internal one is installed inside of your PC (you must remove screws, etc. to install it). An external one just plugs in to a cable: USB cable (USB modem) or to the serial port (RS-232 serial modem). As compared to external serial modems, the internal -modems are less expensive, are less likely to to suffer data loss due +modems are less expensive, are less likely to suffer data loss due to buffer overrun, and usually use less electricity. An internal modem obviously doesn't use up any desk space. @@ -1150,7 +1150,7 @@ Pinout and Signals for more details. Internal Modem Contains Serial Port

For an internal modem there is no 9-pin connector but the behavior is almost exactly as if the above mentioned cable wires existed. -Instead of a a 12 volt signal in a wire giving the state of a modem +Instead of a 12 volt signal in a wire giving the state of a modem control line, the internal modem may just use a status bit in its own memory (a register) to determine the state of this non-existent "wire". The internal modem's serial port looks just like a real @@ -2476,7 +2476,7 @@ stty in the Serial-HOWTO or Text-Terminal-HOWTO.. modem, you first need to make sure it can be found and that AT-commands and the like can be sent to it. So I suggest you first give it a very simple configuration using the communication program -you will be using on the port and see it it works. If this works you +you will be using on the port and see if it works. If this works you may then want to improve on the configuration, If not then see . A winmodem may be hard to find and will not work under @@ -4111,7 +4111,7 @@ This is one way to crudely transfer files with someone on a MS Windows PC who uses HyperTerminal or Terminal (for Windows 3.x or DOS). These two MS programs are something like minicom. Using this simple manual method (for Linux-to-Linux or MS-to-Linux) requires two people to be -present, one one each end of the phone line connection running a +present, one on each end of the phone line connection running a terminal communications program. Be warned that if both people type at the same time it's chaos. It's a "last resort" way to transfer files between any two people that have PCs (either Linux or @@ -5225,7 +5225,7 @@ Thus, disregard what it says about the IRQ, because it's just assuming the standard IRQs. This is done, because IRQ detection is unreliable, and can be fooled. But if and when setserial runs from a start-up script, it changes the IRQ's and displays the new (and hopefully -correct) state on on the startup screen. If the wrong IRQ is not +correct) state on the startup screen. If the wrong IRQ is not corrected by a later display on the screen, then you've got a problem. So, even though I have my Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)