The real legal meaning of the GNU General Public Licence (copyleft) is
however it is interpreted by a judge. There has never been a copyright
- infringment case involving the GPL to set any precedents. Please take any
+ infringement case involving the GPL to set any precedents. Please take any
discussion regarding this issue to the newsgroup gnu.misc.discuss, which
was created to hold the extensive flame wars on the subject.
If you are receiving a GNU mailing list named `XXX', you might be able
to unsubscribe to it by sending a request to the address
`XXX-request@prep.ai.mit.edu'. However, this will not work if you are
- not listed on the main mailing list, but instead recieve the mail from a
+ not listed on the main mailing list, but instead receive the mail from a
distribution point. In that case, you will have to track down at which
distribution point you are listed. Inspecting the `Received:' headers
on the mail messages may help, along with liberal use of the `EXPN' or
Cliff Stoll in his book `The Cuckoo's Egg' describes this in chapter 4.
The site at LBL had installed the `etc/movemail' program setuid root.
Since `movemail' had not been designed for this situation, a security
- hole was created and users could get root priveleges.
+ hole was created and users could get root privileges.
`movemail' has since been changed so that even if it is installed setuid
root this security hole will not be a result.
Emacs accepts synthetic X events generated by the SendEvent request as
though they were regular events. As a result, if you are using the
trivial host-based authentication, other users who can open X
- connections to your X workstatation can make your Emacs process do
- anything, including run other processes with your priveleges.
+ connections to your X workstation can make your Emacs process do
+ anything, including run other processes with your privileges.
The only fix for this is to prevent other users from being able to open
X connections. The standard way to prevent this is to use a real
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+ ;; |91-03-26|$Revision: 1.4 $|~/packages/tex-complete.el.Z !
Dave Brennan has software which automatically looks for data in this
format. The format is fairly flexible. The entry ends when a line is
X keysyms Up, Left, Right, and Down.)
Break (the `Alternate' key is given this keysym)
- These keys work like Sun function keys. When Emacs recieves the
+ These keys work like Sun function keys. When Emacs receives the
keysym, it will internally use character sequences that look like "ESC
[ ### z", where ### is replaced by a number. The character sequences
are identical to those generated by Sun's keyboard under SunView. Any
With these patches, Emacs becomes fully 8-bit operational. There is
support for displaying 8-bit characters, as well as for entering such
- characters from the keyboard. In addition, upcase/lowcase tranlatsion
+ characters from the keyboard. In addition, upcase/lowcase translation
is supported, accented characters are recognized as "letters" (important
when doing 'forward-word', for example), and text with 8-bit characters
can be sorted correctly.