docs/66540: [patch] share/man/man4/ppbus.4 wording nits

Tue May 11 20:00:42 UTC 2004

The following reply was made to PR docs/66540; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: fox at vader.aacc.cc.md.us
To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser at chello.cz>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/66540: [patch] share/man/man4/ppbus.4 wording nits
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 15:58:53 -0400 (EDT)

 On Tue, 11 May 2004, Roman Neuhauser wrote:

 > # fox at vader.aacc.cc.md.us / 2004-05-11 10:38:23 -0700:
 > > --- share/man/man4/ppbus.4.orig	Fri May  7 07:43:07 2004
 > > +++ share/man/man4/ppbus.4	Fri May  7 08:06:15 2004
 > > -Any transfer is defined as a finite state automate.
 > > +Any transfer is defined as a finite state machine.
 > 
 >     s/automate/automaton/ would be... more faithful to the original? :)
 >     (ESL, so I might be babbling)

 Mebbe, but even then, I'd go for "finite state machine" as the more common 
 English idiom. This is tech writing, not high litterature that has to be 
 translated painstakingly for beauty and fidelity. :-)

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