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authorjames <>2008-03-11 18:12:17 +0000
committerjames <>2008-03-11 18:12:17 +0000
commitcb2d63f59e78f8b5f9597f0d88aab13017001274 (patch)
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*** empty log message ***
-rw-r--r--sympathy.136
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diff --git a/sympathy.1 b/sympathy.1
index 2dacc6d..43a8b88 100644
--- a/sympathy.1
+++ b/sympathy.1
@@ -205,10 +205,10 @@ write the pid of the server/terminal process to \fIpidfile\fP, which is
removed on clean exit.
.TP 5
.B \-R
-rotate log files. When the logfile specified with the \fB\-L\fP option
+rotate log files. When the log\-file specified with the \fB\-L\fP option
grows large
.I sympathy
-will rotate it and compress old logfiles.
+will rotate it and compress old log\-files.
.TP 5
.B \-w \fIwidth\fP[x\fIheight\fP]
set the initial size of the terminal emulator's frame buffer to be \fIwidth\fP columns
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ render the current state of the internal frame buffer to \fIstdout\fP as HTML, t
.B \-N
don't render the internal frame buffer using ANSI characters, but instead write characters
that would be written to the screen to stdout. Take characters from stdin and send them
-to the device. This feature is useful when you wish to use sympathy in conjuction with programs
+to the device. This feature is useful when you wish to use sympathy in conjunction with programs
like expect(1).
.PP
.B \fIclient_options\fP:
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ chooses a socket name if \-\fBr\fP is specified.
.TP 5
.B \-I string
Inject \fIstring\fP to the device as if it had been typed at the keyboard. Each character in
-the string is treated as a keypress.
+the string is treated as a key\-press.
.I Sympathy
recognizes various common escapes for control characters. Other keys, for example the arrow keys,
are mapped to character codes between 128 and 255, see src/keys.h for details.
@@ -441,23 +441,23 @@ transmission of breaks.
.IP \(bu 3
sending of the hangup signal (dropping the DTR line).
.IP \(bu 3
-unknown or unhandled messages sent on the socket.
+unknown or un\-handled messages sent on the socket.
.IP \(bu 3
-connexion and disconexion of clients.
+connexion and disconnexion of clients.
.IP \(bu 3
-recpetion of SIGHUP.
+reception of SIGHUP.
.IP \(bu 3
invalid UTF-8 sequences.
.IP \(bu 3
terminal size changes
.IP \(bu 3
-unhandled terminal command sequences
+un\-handled terminal command sequences
.PP
The log file is rotated when it gets too large if the \fI\-R\fP option
-is specified, and the log file is re-opened on recipt of a \fBSIGHUP\fP
+is specified, and the log file is re-opened on receipt of a \fBSIGHUP\fP
which together with the \fB\-P\fP allows the use of of a program such
as logrotate(8)
-.SH AUTOMATIC BAUD RATE ALGORYTM
+.SH AUTOMATIC BAUD RATE ALGORITHM
If
.I sympathy
detects a framing error on the serial port it displays the count of
@@ -466,10 +466,10 @@ errors on the status line, and logs the error.
<tty reports error: \\377 \\000 \\000>
.PP
The count is reset to zero after ten seconds
-have elapsed during which no errors have occured.
+have elapsed during which no errors have occurred.
.I Sympathy
-looks at bit patterns of the characters recevied, and
-measures the length (in units of the reciving UART's
+looks at bit patterns of the characters received, and
+measures the length (in units of the receiving UART's
bit period) of any runs of '1's delimited by '0's and vice\-versa. It
then calculates the statistics on the length of these runs, and logs these.
.IP
@@ -479,18 +479,18 @@ For a typical
stream of ASCII data, the most common run length will be the correct bit
period.
.I Sympathy
-uses this togetehr with the current bit period to calculate the most probable
+uses this together with the current bit period to calculate the most probable
correct baud\-rate, which is displayed in the status line, and logged.
-If the correct baud\irate is higher than the current baud\-rate then the most common bit frequencey will be '0' or '1' and the correct baud\-rate cannot be
+If the correct baud\irate is higher than the current baud\-rate then the most common bit frequency will be '0' or '1' and the correct baud\-rate cannot be
determined. In this case sympathy will display and log the message 'try higher'.
.IP
<tty_analyse: 80 errors, current rate 115200b, suggest 19200b>
.PP
-The algorythm only works well if the data stream is normal. If the data stream
-is generated by the reception, at the wrong baud\-rate, of characters emited
+The algorithm only works well if the data stream is normal. If the data stream
+is generated by the reception, at the wrong baud\-rate, of characters emitted
by
.I sympathy
-then the algoryhtm will be biased towards suggesting that the baud\-rate
+then the algorithm will be biased towards suggesting that the baud\-rate
is too low. Noise on the line will also result in sympathy concluding that
the baud\-rate is too low.
.SH SIGNALS