From 4df0f7ede089ccecdcaa15608ea3954d01586c30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Francois Gouget Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:06:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Small spelling/punctuation fixes. Small rephrasings. --- documentation/faq.sgml | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) diff --git a/documentation/faq.sgml b/documentation/faq.sgml index 9bd0d0855c9..1e3fa1981db 100644 --- a/documentation/faq.sgml +++ b/documentation/faq.sgml @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ - Plex86 is the opensource free-software alternative for VMWare, + Plex86 is the open-source free-software alternative for VMWare, VirtualPC, and other IA-32 on IA-32 "Virtual PC products." It can only run on the IA-32 architecture. @@ -176,8 +176,8 @@ hard-drive space required by Windows, memory and performance hit taken by emulated virtual machines. Now you can start your Windows application straight from your regular desktop environment, place - that application's window side by side with native application - windows, copy/paste from one to the other, and run it all at full speed. + that application's window side by side with native applications, + copy/paste from one to the other, and run it all at full speed. It is also a pretty vital part of migrating a large organisation, @@ -473,8 +473,8 @@ express permission by TransGaming. They have submitted some of their work for integration into Wine, most notably DirectDraw and some DirectSound work, and such work has been integrated into - Wine tree. However it seems unlikely they will submit their Direct3D - work. + the Wine tree. However it seems unlikely they will submit their + Direct3D work. @@ -551,8 +551,8 @@ missing device/hardware support). - Linux/x86: Works, and as most popular platform for both developers - and users, it is the best supported platform of all. + Linux/x86: Works, and as the most popular platform for both + developers and users, it is the best supported platform of all. @@ -835,7 +835,7 @@ - Most of Wine's development effort is geared against MS Windows' GUI, + Most of Wine's development effort is geared towards MS Windows' GUI, but some limited support for character mode has appeared, by setting GraphicsDriver=ttydrv in wine.conf's [wine] section. @@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ Wine's infrastructure is already somewhat prepared for supporting other graphics drivers than x11drv, but no real "alternative" - graphics driver has been developped yet. + graphics driver has been developed yet. @@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@ wine - Installing And Configuring Wine + Installing and Configuring Wine How do I compile the Wine distribution source code? @@ -1070,7 +1070,7 @@ wine hardware and cannot get it with Wine and UNIX in the way - Wine is supposed to be used WITHOUT Windows primarily. If you want + Wine is supposed to be primarily used WITHOUT Windows. If you want to use a Windows installation, then use an existing installation alongside the UNIX installation (see the dual-boot HOWTO for your OS for more details). Or alternatively use the cabextract utility to @@ -1121,7 +1121,7 @@ wine - Either use a classic no-windows install (Wine is getter better all + Either use a classic no-windows install (Wine is getting better all the time) or use a Win9x install (Win95, 98, 98SE, ME). DON'T configure Wine to use an NT-based Windows install (NT, Win2K, WinXP). @@ -1168,7 +1168,7 @@ wine - When I click on *.exe file in my file Manager, nothing happens + When I click on *.exe file in my file Manager, nothing happens. @@ -1226,7 +1226,7 @@ export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/wine/binary If you used a package manager (rpm or apt) - Verify your packages. The package winesetuptk.rpm is only a front-end for - making a meaningfull config file, it DOES NOT install the wine + making a meaningful config file, it DOES NOT install the wine package... @@ -1399,7 +1399,7 @@ rm -fR \[/path/\]Wine* - Can I use Wine with SuSe, Peanut or other Linux Distro's? + Can I use Wine with SuSE, Peanut or other Linux Distro's? @@ -1416,7 +1416,8 @@ rm -fR \[/path/\]Wine* - Yes, it does. + Yes, it does. Wine should work on any processor compatible with + the Pentium or greater. @@ -1428,7 +1429,7 @@ rm -fR \[/path/\]Wine* Sure, Wine supports that. Just enter the unix program name wherever - a program has something that it's supposed to execute,and then it + a program has something that it's supposed to execute, and it should just work. @@ -1437,7 +1438,7 @@ rm -fR \[/path/\]Wine* I get Error installing iKernel.exe: (0x1400) - when running an Installshield 6 installer + when running an Installshield 6 installer. @@ -1446,14 +1447,14 @@ rm -fR \[/path/\]Wine* point, it's probably because there are leftover processes from a previous try. You can verify this with the command - $ ps augxw | grep wine + $ ps augxw | grep wine If that command shows old copies of wine running your setup, you need to kill them before you can run the setup program. If there are no other Wine programs running, you can kill them all with the command - $ killall wine + $ killall wine If you're also running Wine programs you care about, you'll have to kill off the old Setup instances one by one using @@ -1462,7 +1463,7 @@ rm -fR \[/path/\]Wine* You should repeat the ps to make sure the old - wines are gone. + Wine processes are gone. @@ -1587,8 +1588,8 @@ rm -fR \[/path/\]Wine* - The MS Windows program name and, if possible, the version number - of the software tested + The Windows application name, including the version, and, if + applicable, a URL the application can be downloaded from