Documentation language corrections, contributed by Chris Pepper <pepper@mail.reppep...

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index ca4d403a3695a371616bc5d81395bed5f8941537..f4691454a1795d8722a929d4b6854d5aeb37966d 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
      directory, and the binary will be in the "apps" directory.
 
      If "make" fails, look at the output.  There may be reasons for
-     the failure that isn't a problem in OpenSSL itself (like missing
+     the failure that aren't problems in OpenSSL itself (like missing
      standard headers).  If it is a problem with OpenSSL itself, please
      report the problem to <openssl-bugs@openssl.org> (note that your
      message will be forwarded to a public mailing list).  Include the

diff --git a/INSTALL.MacOS b/INSTALL.MacOS
index a8c4f7f1dac12ec1a698d5c5d472fcfabb778723..ef3479f387cdf4e66ed176378faf82887c62ff68 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL.MacOS
+++ b/INSTALL.MacOS
@@ -32,17 +32,17 @@ Installation procedure:
         to 42, change appropriately.
 (**)   If you use SUNtar, then it might have already unbinhexed the files
        in question.
-(***)  The project file was saved with CW Pro 5.3. If you have earlier
+(***)  The project file was saved with CW Pro 5.3. If you have an earlier
        version and it refuses to open it, then download
        http://www.openssl.org/~appro/OpenSSL.mcp.xml and import it
        overwriting the original OpenSSL.mcp.
-(****) Other targets are work in progress. If you feel like giving 'em a
+(****) Other targets are works in progress. If you feel like giving 'em a
        shot, then you should know that OpenSSL* and Lib* targets are
        supposed to be built with the GUSI, MacOS library which mimics
        BSD sockets and some other POSIX APIs. The GUSI distribution is
-       expected to be found in the same directory as openssl source tree,
-       i.e. in the parent directory to the one where this very file,
-       namely INSTALL.MacOS. For more informations about GUSI, see
+       expected to be found in the same directory as the openssl source tree,
+       i.e., in the parent directory to the one where this very file,
+       namely INSTALL.MacOS, resides. For more information about GUSI, see
        http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri/macintosh/gusi-qa.html
 
 Finally some essential comments from our generous contributor:-)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 3364f62440ab11ef6464979205d7bf6f23d4a6fa..2fb1e1a7adb5e824b92e615288a7668158c12c17 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -107,8 +107,8 @@
  only be used with RSA Security's permission. 
 
  The IDEA algorithm is patented by Ascom in Austria, France, Germany, Italy,
- Japan, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the USA.  They should
- be contacted if that algorithm is to be used, their web page is
+ Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the USA.  They
+ should be contacted if that algorithm is to be used; their web page is
  http://www.ascom.ch/.
 
  INSTALLATION
@@ -119,8 +119,8 @@
  INSTALL.VMS.
 
  Read the documentation in the doc/ directory.  It is quite rough, but it
- lists the functions, you will probably have to look at the code to work out
- how to used them. Look at the example programs.
+ lists the functions; you will probably have to look at the code to work out
+ how to use them. Look at the example programs.
 
  SUPPORT 
  -------