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Libc manual typo patch


This patch fixes a couple of typos in the glibc manual.

2001-11-04  Joseph S. Myers  <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>

	* manual/string.texi, manual/examples/argp-ex2.c: Fix typos.

--- manual/string.texi.orig	Fri May 25 11:29:40 2001
+++ manual/string.texi	Sun Nov  4 00:43:51 2001
@@ -2137,7 +2137,7 @@
 @comment GNU
 @deftypefun {char *} basename (const char *@var{filename})
 The GNU version of the @code{basename} function returns the last
-component of the path in @var{filename}.  This function is the prefered
+component of the path in @var{filename}.  This function is the preferred
 usage, since it does not modify the argument, @var{filename}, and
 respects trailing slashes.  The prototype for @code{basename} can be
 found in @file{string.h}.  Note, this function is overriden by the XPG
--- manual/examples/argp-ex2.c.orig	Tue Feb 22 08:48:51 2000
+++ manual/examples/argp-ex2.c	Sun Nov  4 00:44:37 2001
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
    but not in this small program).  There are also two global
    variables that argp knows about defined here,
    ARGP_PROGRAM_VERSION and ARGP_PROGRAM_BUG_ADDRESS (they are
-   global variables becuase they will almost always be constant
+   global variables because they will almost always be constant
    for a given program, even if it uses different argument
    parsers for various tasks).  */
 

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk


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