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Re: Some spelling corrections



Florian Ernst wrote, Thursday, September 02, 2004 9:59 AM
[...]
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 10:30:57PM -0600, doug jensen wrote:
[...]
>> Being familiar with the Unix environment (and specially GNU userland,
found in
>> s/specially/especially
>
> There are 39 uses of [Ss]pecially in the English pages, so I rather
> leave this for others.

That one should be especially.

[...]
>> message might overflow a buffer and which could result into executing
arbitrary
>> s/into/in
>
> I'm not sure, but my dictionary agrees. "into" sounds good to me,
> though...

Definitely "...could result in...". "into" makes no sense in this context.
In fact, the sentence makes no sense. :-)

It should be:

-message might overflow a buffer and which could result into executing
arbitraty
+message might overflow a buffer, which could result in executing arbitrary

Regards,

Adam



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