- macro, punctuation, and rewording tweaks

- avoid first person.

ok jmc

4 files changed, 21 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/libc/string/strcat.3 b/src/lib/libc/string/strcat.3
index 89d368c3fb..b81e724917 100644
--- a/src/lib/libc/string/strcat.3
+++ b/src/lib/libc/string/strcat.3
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"     $OpenBSD: strcat.3,v 1.10 2005/02/25 03:12:44 cloder Exp $
+.\"     $OpenBSD: strcat.3,v 1.11 2005/08/06 03:21:36 jaredy Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd July 8, 1997
 .Dt STRCAT 3
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ functions return the pointer
 The following appends
 .Dq Li abc
 to
-.Dq Li chararray :
+.Va chararray :
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
 char *letters = "abcdefghi";
 
@@ -99,11 +99,13 @@ buf[sizeof(buf) - 1] = '\e0';
 .Ed
 .Pp
 The above will copy as many characters from
-.Dq Li input
+.Va input
 to
-.Dq Li buf
+.Va buf
 as will fit.
-It then appends as many characters from suffix as will fit (or none
+It then appends as many characters from
+.Va suffix
+as will fit (or none
 if there is no space).
 For operations like this, the
 .Xr strlcpy 3
diff --git a/src/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3 b/src/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3
index 504f42f2ba..2bc413c6ca 100644
--- a/src/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3
+++ b/src/lib/libc/string/strcpy.3
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"     $OpenBSD: strcpy.3,v 1.13 2005/02/25 03:12:44 cloder Exp $
+.\"     $OpenBSD: strcpy.3,v 1.14 2005/08/06 03:21:36 jaredy Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd June 29, 1991
 .Dt STRCPY 3
@@ -100,7 +100,8 @@ and does
 .Em not
 NUL terminate
 .Va chararray
-because the source string is >= the length parameter.
+because the length of the source string is greater than or equal to the
+length parameter.
 .Fn strncpy
 .Em only
 NUL terminates the destination string when the length of the source
@@ -118,7 +119,7 @@ Because
 .Fn strncpy
 does
 .Em not
-guarantee to NUL terminate the string itself, we must do this by hand.
+guarantee to NUL terminate the string itself, it must be done by hand.
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
 char buf[BUFSIZ];
 
diff --git a/src/lib/libc/string/strlcpy.3 b/src/lib/libc/string/strlcpy.3
index b392588879..c728c75e51 100644
--- a/src/lib/libc/string/strlcpy.3
+++ b/src/lib/libc/string/strlcpy.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: strlcpy.3,v 1.16 2003/06/17 21:56:24 millert Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: strlcpy.3,v 1.17 2005/08/06 03:21:36 jaredy Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1998, 2000 Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
 .\"
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ is larger than 0 or, in the case of
 .Fn strlcat ,
 as long as there is at least one byte free in
 .Fa dst ) .
-Note that you should include a byte for the NUL in
+Note that a byte for the NUL should be included in
 .Fa size .
 Also note that
 .Fn strlcpy
@@ -105,10 +105,10 @@ that means the initial length of
 plus
 the length of
 .Fa src .
-While this may seem somewhat confusing it was done to make
+While this may seem somewhat confusing, it was done to make
 truncation detection simple.
 .Pp
-Note however, that if
+Note, however, that if
 .Fn strlcat
 traverses
 .Fa size
@@ -152,8 +152,8 @@ if (strlcat(pname, file, sizeof(pname)) >= sizeof(pname))
         goto toolong;
 .Ed
 .Pp
-Since we know how many characters we copied the first time, we can
-speed things up a bit by using a copy instead of an append:
+Since it is known how many characters were copied the first time, things
+can be sped up a bit by using a copy instead of an append:
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
 char *dir, *file, pname[MAXPATHLEN];
 size_t n;
diff --git a/src/lib/libc/string/wcstok.3 b/src/lib/libc/string/wcstok.3
index dd3f36cfd5..28291888f5 100644
--- a/src/lib/libc/string/wcstok.3
+++ b/src/lib/libc/string/wcstok.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"     $OpenBSD: wcstok.3,v 1.2 2005/04/13 20:42:48 jmc Exp $
+.\"     $OpenBSD: wcstok.3,v 1.3 2005/08/06 03:21:36 jaredy Exp $
 .\"
 .\" $NetBSD: wcstok.3,v 1.3 2003/09/08 17:54:33 wiz Exp $
 .\"
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
 The
 .Fn wcstok
 function
-is used to isolate sequential tokens in a null-terminated wide character
+is used to isolate sequential tokens in a NUL-terminated wide character
 string,
 .Fa str .
 These tokens are separated in the string by at least one of the
@@ -97,12 +97,12 @@ The
 .Fn wcstok
 function
 returns a pointer to the beginning of each subsequent token in the string,
-after replacing the token itself with a null wide character (L'\e0').
+after replacing the token itself with a NUL wide character (L'\e0').
 When no more tokens remain, a null pointer is returned.
 .Sh EXAMPLES
 The following code fragment splits a wide character string on
 .Tn ASCII
-space, tab and newline characters and writes the tokens to
+space, tab, and newline characters and writes the tokens to
 standard output:
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
 const wchar_t *seps = L" \et\en";