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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-07-06 20:23:02 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-07-06 20:23:02 (GMT)
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Fix up a few style nits -- avoid "e.g." and "i.e." -- these make
translation more difficult, as well as reading the English more difficult for non-native speakers. Add an index entry for the Telnet protocol. Always refer to the protocol as Telnet instead of telnet.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libtelnetlib.tex b/Doc/lib/libtelnetlib.tex
index 50d0c53..c772839 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libtelnetlib.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libtelnetlib.tex
@@ -5,13 +5,15 @@
\modulesynopsis{Telnet client class.}
\sectionauthor{Skip Montanaro}{skip@mojam.com}
+\index{protocol!Telnet}
+
The \module{telnetlib} module provides a \class{Telnet} class that
implements the Telnet protocol. See \rfc{854} for details about the
protocol.
\begin{classdesc}{Telnet}{\optional{host\optional{, port}}}
-\class{Telnet} represents a connection to a telnet server. The
+\class{Telnet} represents a connection to a Telnet server. The
instance is initially not connected by default; the \method{open()}
method must be used to establish a connection. Alternatively, the
host name and optional port number can be passed to the constructor,
@@ -92,7 +94,7 @@ never blocks.
\begin{methoddesc}{open}{host\optional{, port}}
Connect to a host.
The optional second argument is the port number, which
-defaults to the standard telnet port (23).
+defaults to the standard Telnet port (23).
Do not try to reopen an already connected instance.
\end{methoddesc}
@@ -127,7 +129,7 @@ This can block if the connection is blocked. May raise
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}{interact}{}
-Interaction function, emulates a very dumb telnet client.
+Interaction function, emulates a very dumb Telnet client.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}{mt_interact}{}
@@ -151,7 +153,7 @@ If end of file is found and no text was read, raise
\code{(-1, None, \var{text})} where \var{text} is the text received so
far (may be the empty string if a timeout happened).
-If a regular expression ends with a greedy match (e.g. \regexp{.*})
+If a regular expression ends with a greedy match (such as \regexp{.*})
or if more than one expression can match the same input, the
results are indeterministic, and may depend on the I/O timing.
\end{methoddesc}