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Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:15:36 UTC
The branch main has been updated by wosch:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=21c14b1ba62e66b685eb1668d4bd50a28935bf1e
commit 21c14b1ba62e66b685eb1668d4bd50a28935bf1e
Author: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2026-09-17 11:14:24 +0000
Commit: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2026-09-17 11:14:24 +0000
man.cgi: fix typos & grammar on the help page
---
website/content/en/cgi/man.cgi | 17 ++++++++---------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/website/content/en/cgi/man.cgi b/website/content/en/cgi/man.cgi
index ea6f7fb8b6..d7d5c249bf 100755
--- a/website/content/en/cgi/man.cgi
+++ b/website/content/en/cgi/man.cgi
@@ -2532,7 +2532,7 @@ since its first release, version 1.0, and dozens of other operating
systems and Unix variants - spanning decades of computing history,
from 1970s Unix Seventh Edition and 2.11 BSD through every FreeBSD
release, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and current releases of Debian, Ubuntu,
-Rocky Linux and macOS.
+Rocky Linux, and macOS.
</p>
<p>
@@ -2547,7 +2547,7 @@ themselves.
<p>You can use these short URLs to search for FreeBSD man pages:</p>
<ul>
-<li>socket manpage: <a href="https://man.freebsd.org/which">https://man.freebsd.org/socket</a></li>
+<li>socket manpage: <a href="https://man.freebsd.org/socket">https://man.freebsd.org/socket</a></li>
<li>socket(2) manpage: <a href="https://man.freebsd.org/socket/2">https://man.freebsd.org/socket/2</a></li>
</ul>
@@ -2571,9 +2571,9 @@ Other operating system manual pages are updated as needed.
<h2>FAQ</h2>
<ul>
-<li>Get the <a href="https://cgit.freebsd.org/doc/tree/website/content/en/cgi/man.cgi">source</a> of the man.cgi script</li>
-<li>Troff macros works only if defined in FreeBSD/groff. OS specific
-macros like `appeared in NetBSD version 1.2' are not supported.</li>
+<li>Get the <a href="https://cgit.freebsd.org/doc/tree/website/content/en/cgi/man.cgi">source</a> of the man.cgi script.</li>
+<li>Troff macros work only if defined in FreeBSD/groff. OS-specific
+macros like "appeared in NetBSD version 1.2" are not supported.</li>
<li>Some OSs provide only formatted manual pages (catpages), e.g.,
older NetBSD and OpenBSD releases. In this case it is not possible to create Postscript
and troff output.</li>
@@ -2585,12 +2585,11 @@ FreeBSD Ports Search</a> script.</li>
<h2>Release Permalinks and tarballs</h2>
<p>
-Releases and releases aliases permalinks are information how
-to make a link to this script to the right OS version.
+Release and release-alias permalinks show how to link to this script for the right OS version.
</p>
<p>
-You may download the manual pages as gzip'd tar archive for private or educational purposes.
+You may download the manual pages as a gzip'd tar archive for private or educational purposes.
A tarball is normally 15-50 MB in size, but can be up to 350 MB for FreeBSD ports.
</p>
@@ -2603,7 +2602,7 @@ A tarball is normally 15-50 MB in size, but can be up to 350 MB for FreeBSD port
<p>
Release aliases are for lazy people. Plus, they have a longer
-lifetime, eg. 'netbsd' points always to the latest NetBSD release.
+lifetime, e.g. "netbsd" always points to the latest NetBSD release.
</p>
<ul>