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Various minor capitalization and typo fixes (#371)

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This commit fixes various minor typos, punctuation errors and
corrects the capitalization of many names.
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Johnothan King 2021-12-12 13:40:38 -08:00 • committed by Martijn Dekker
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@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ the man page for ksh93 is kept up to date.
The only major new interactive features are key binding and tab completion.
Major new language features are floating point arithmetic,
associative arrays, complete ANSI-C printf, name reference
associative arrays, complete ANSI C printf, name reference
variables, new expansion operators, dynamic loading of
built-in commands, active variables, and compound variables.
Active and compound variables allow shell variables to
@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ bash compatibility mode.
</UL>
<LI>
<EM>version</EM>--
a lower-case letter signifying major release points.
a lowercase letter signifying major release points.
An optional <STRONG>-</STRONG> following <EM>features</EM> signifies an alpha release.
The first stable release has no <STRONG>-</STRONG>.
An optional <STRONG>+</STRONG> signifies a stable release with bug patches and minor enhancements.
@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ in a numeric context is an integer that encodes the release
<DT>What new features are planned for ksh?<DD>
We are in the early stage of planning but the likely additions
are namespaces, ability to read xml and json object into shell variables,
are namespaces, ability to read XML and JSON object into shell variables,
and handling of queued signals.
Support for multi-threading is also being considered.
@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ is to make the command a builtin. On systems in which the cmd
library is installed, you can invoke 'builtin &#45;f cmd mv' to make
mv a shell builtin in which case the line length limit no longer
applies. Another alternative is to use a for loop and invoke
the mv command for each file, for exampe,
the mv command for each file, for example,
'for i in *;do mv $i ../elsewhere;done'.
Starting with ksh93o+, a new feature was added to ksh to overcome
this limit in some cases. If a command is preceded by
@ -549,9 +549,9 @@ read x
The $'...' string literal syntax was added to ksh93 to solve the problem
of entering special characters in scripts.
It uses
ANSI-C rules to translate the string between the '...'.
ANSI C rules to translate the string between the '...'.
It would have been cleaner to have all "..." strings handle
ANSI-C escapes, but that would not be backward compatible.
ANSI C escapes, but that would not be backward compatible.
<DT>What is the -n option used for?<DD>
@ -773,7 +773,7 @@ or indexed, use ${!var&#0091;@&#0093;}.
Use // instead of / for global substitution, ${var//aa/bb} will
expand to the value of var with each "aa" replaced by "bb".
<DT>How can I convert %XX values to ascii?<DD>
<DT>How can I convert %XX values to ASCII?<DD>
You can convert this to a sequence of ANSI C strings and then eval that
string, for example suppose the variable 'foo' contains %XX strings, then
@ -782,7 +782,7 @@ string, for example suppose the variable 'foo' contains %XX strings, then
eval print -r -- "\$'${foo//'%'@(??)/'\x\1"'\$'"}'"
</DIV>
</PRE>
will print out the string in ascii.
will print out the string in ASCII.
<DT>I want to use exec to open a file. How do I prevent the script from exiting if the exec fails?<DD>