Correct typos

help/Makefile

@@ -220,10 +220,10 @@ T=
 # H=@:	do not report hsrc file formation progress
 # H=@	do echo hsrc file formation progress
 #
-# S= >/dev/null 2>&1	slience ${CC} output during hsrc file formation
+# S= >/dev/null 2>&1	silence ${CC} output during hsrc file formation
 # S=			full ${CC} output during hsrc file formation
 #
-# E= 2>/dev/null	slience command stderr during hsrc file formation
+# E= 2>/dev/null	silence command stderr during hsrc file formation
 # E=			full command stderr during hsrc file formation
 #
 # V=@:	do not echo debug statements (quiet mode)
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ TRUE= true
 # the extension required by such.
 #
 # EXT=				# normal Un*x / Linux / GNU/Linux systems
-# EXT=.exe			# windoz / Cygwin
+# EXT=.exe			# Windows / Cygwin
 #
 # If in doubt, use EXT=
 #
@@ -685,7 +685,7 @@ ${SINGULAR_FILES}: ${PLURAL_FILES}
 # into a stand-alone program that generates a suitable function list
 # that is sandwiched between the top and bottom builtin help text.
 #
-# We form funclist.c by sedding out unwanted stuff from builtins table,
+# We form funclist.c by sed-ing out unwanted stuff from builtins table,
 # converting NUMBER* and VALUE into harmless types and converting
 # the showbuiltins() function into main().  Combined with the -DFUNCLIST
 # we will avoid all of the complex calc types, macros and defines and

help/cfsim

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ DESCRIPTION
     consider the two cases rnd = 8 and rnd = 16.
 
     If den(x) > 2, cfsim(x, 8) returns the value of the penultimate simple
-    continued-fraction approximant to x, i.e. if:
+    continued-fraction approximate to x, i.e. if:
 
 	x = a_0 + 1/(a_1 + 1/(a_2 + ... + 1/a_n) ...)),
 
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ DESCRIPTION
     of x described above, this is given by replacing a_n by a_n - 1.
 
     If den(x) = 2, the definition adopted is to round towards zero for the
-    approximant case (rnd = 8) and from zero for the "nearest" case (rnd = 16).
+    approximate case (rnd = 8) and from zero for the "nearest" case (rnd = 16).
 
     For integral x, cfsim(x, 8) returns zero, cfsim(x,16) returns x - sgn(x).
 
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ DESCRIPTION
 
 	rnd		integer x	half-integer x		den(x) > 2
 
-	 8		0		x - sgn(x)/2		approximant
+	 8		0		x - sgn(x)/2		approximate
 	16		x - sgn(x)	x + sgn(x)/2		nearest
 
      From either cfsim(x, 0) and cfsim(x, 1), the other is easily
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ DESCRIPTION
      "good" approximations to x with decreasing denominators and
      correspondingly decreasing accuracy; each denominator is less than half
      the preceding denominator.	 (Unlike the "forward" sequence of
-     continued-fraction approximants these are not necessarily alternately
+     continued-fraction approximates these are not necessarily alternately
      greater than and less than x.)
 
      Some other properties:

help/command

@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ Command sequence
 		opcodes func	internal opcodes for function `func'
 		sizes		size in octets of calc value types
 		realglobals		numeric global variables
-		statics		unscoped static variables
+		statics		un-scoped static variables
 		numbers		calc number cache
 		redcdata		REDC data defined
 		strings		calc string cache

help/config

@@ -879,7 +879,7 @@ DESCRIPTION
 
     Returns the rate at which the operating system advances the clock
     on POSIX based systems.  Returns 0 on non-POSIX based systems.
-    The non-zero value returned is in Hetrz.
+    The non-zero value returned is in Hertz.
 
     This config parameter is read-only and cannot be set.
 

help/dms2d

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 TYPES
     d		real
     m		real
-    s		real (defauls to 0)
+    s		real (defaults to 0)
     rnd		nonnegative integer, defaults to config("mod")
 
     return	degrees
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ TYPES
 DESCRIPTION
     Convert degrees, m minutes, and s seconds returning degrees.
 
-    The return value in degrees, is quivalent to the following:
+    The return value in degrees, is equivalent to the following:
 
 	mod(d + m/60 + s/3600, 360, rnd);
 

help/fopen

@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ DESCRIPTION
 	operating system).  Adding 'b' to an fopen has no effect
 	and is ignored.
 
-	Some non-POSIX systems sucn as MS Windoz treat text files
-	and binary files differently.  In text mode MS Windoz consider
+	Some non-POSIX systems such as MS Windows treat text files
+	and binary files differently.  In text mode MS Windows consider
 	"\r\n" and end-of-line character.  On an Apple MAC, the
 	text mode end-of-line character is "\r".
 

help/fpathopen

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ DESCRIPTION
 
 	fpathopen("fizzbin", "r", ".:/tmp:/var/tmp:~chongo/pub:~/tmp");
 
-    This call will likely open (and create if needded) for appending,
+    This call will likely open (and create if needed) for appending,
     the file "/tmp/log" assuming that the user is not allowed to
     create files in the previous system directories:
 
@@ -98,8 +98,8 @@ DESCRIPTION
 	operating system).  Adding 'b' to an fopen has no effect
 	and is ignored.
 
-	Some non-POSIX systems sucn as MS Windoz treat text files
-	and binary files differently.  In text mode MS Windoz consider
+	Some non-POSIX systems such as MS Windows treat text files
+	and binary files differently.  In text mode MS Windows consider
 	"\r\n" and end-of-line character.  On an Apple MAC, the
 	text mode end-of-line character is "\r".
 

help/gms2g

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 TYPES
     d		real
     m		real
-    s		real (defauls to 0)
+    s		real (default to 0)
     rnd		nonnegative integer, defaults to config("mod")
 
     return	gradians
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ TYPES
 DESCRIPTION
     Convert gradians, m minutes, and s seconds returning gradians.
 
-    The return value in gradians, is quivalent to the following:
+    The return value in gradians, is equivalent to the following:
 
 	mod(d + m/60 + s/4000, 400, rnd);
 

help/hms2h

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 TYPES
     h		real
     m		real
-    s		real (defauls to 0)
+    s		real (defaults to 0)
     rnd		nonnegative integer, defaults to config("mod")
 
     return	hours
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ TYPES
 DESCRIPTION
     Convert hours, m minutes, and s seconds returning hours.
 
-    The return value in hours, is quivalent to the following:
+    The return value in hours, is equivalent to the following:
 
 	mod(h + m/60 + s/3600, 24, rnd);
 

help/modify

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
     modify(A, fname)
 
 TYPES
-    A		lvalue with list, matrix or objectvalue
+    A		lvalue with list, matrix or object value
     fname	string, the name of a user-defined function
 
     return	null value if successful, otherwise an error value
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ LINK LIBRARY
 SEE ALSO
     makelist
 
-## Copyright (C) 1999  Landon Curt Noll
+## Copyright (C) 1999,2021  Landon Curt Noll
 ##
 ## Calc is open software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
 ## the terms of the version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License

help/script

@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ Calc shell scripts
     features.  For example, for unquoted arguments or arguments in
     double quotes parameter expansion (indicated by unquoted '$') and
     command substitution (using backquotes) occur before lines are
-    compiled by calc.  For example, if doit is an executable
+    compiled by calc.  For example, if "doit" is an executable
     script with contents
 
 	    calc -q -- "$1($2)"

help/sqrt

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ DESCRIPTION
 
     z bit 5    ((z & 32) > 0)
 
-	0:	return aprox square root
+	0:	return an approximation square root
 
 	1:	return exact square root when real & imaginary are rational
 
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ LINK LIBRARY
 SEE ALSO
    appr, epsilon
 
-## Copyright (C) 1999  Landon Curt Noll
+## Copyright (C) 1999,2021  Landon Curt Noll
 ##
 ## Calc is open software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
 ## the terms of the version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License