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#2 Glossary errors

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nobody
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2003-02-18
2003-02-18
Gianfranco
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There are a number of errors in the Glossary at
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/general/main-glossary.html

Access permissions:
while "-" and "d" are two of the symbols available as
the first symbol, "l" (lower-case L) is also an option.
AFAIK, it is only for symlinks and the like. Currently
"l" is omitted.

ASCII
As it currently reads:
"American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
The standard for representing letters, numbers and
control characters on 7-bits (8 bits for accentuated
character sets)."

Accentuated is not the word to use. According to
http://www.atis.org/tg2k/_ascii.html "The ASCII
character set contains 128 coded characters. Note 2:
Each ASCII character is a 7-bit coded unique character;
8 bits when a parity check bit is included. Note 3: The
ASCII character set consists of control characters and
graphic characters. Note 4: When considered simply as a
set of 128 unique bit patterns, or 256 with a parity
bit, disassociated from the character equivalences in
national implementations, the ASCII may be considered
as an alphabet used in machine languages."
While the current form is more compact, it is somewhat
wrong and not easy to understand.

Debian
As it currently reads:
"One of the many distributions of Linux. Debian's major
difference is that it allows only Free software."

This is erroneous. Debian does have non-free packages.
Debian may sort free and non-free packages better than
other distro's do, but it does not only allow Free
software as stated.

Emacs
AFAIK, Emacs was a project before GNU's time. GNU
provides its own version of Emacs, but the way the
definition reads now, it makes it sound like it was a
GNU original project.

Package management
In the "!" box, "tak" should be "take"

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