Typo fixes

Author: Julien-Elie

backends/actsyncd.in

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # Various bug fixes, code and documentation improvements since then
-# in 1999-2003, 2007-2009, 2021-2024.
+# in 1999-2003, 2007-2009, 2021-2025.
 #
 # Permission to use and modify is hereby granted so long as this
 # notice remains.  Use at your own risk.  No warranty is implied.
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ if [ -z "$ign" ]; then
     exit 5
 fi
 
-# Keep ftppath for backwards-compatibility.
+# Keep ftppath for backward compatibility.
 ftp="$(sed -n -e 's/^ftppath=[ 	]*\/*//p' $cfg | tail -n 1)"
 path="$(sed -n -e 's/^path=[ 	]*\/*//p' $cfg | tail -n 1)"
 protocol="$(sed -n -e 's/^protocol=[ 	]*//p' $cfg \
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ if [ -z "$ftp" ] && [ -z "$path" ]; then
     fi
 fi
 
-# If not NNTP, assume FTP by default for backwards-compatibility.
+# If not NNTP, assume FTP by default for backward compatibility.
 if [ -z "$protocol" ]; then
     protocol="ftp"
 fi

backends/batcher.c

@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ main(int ac, char *av[])
         Cookie = ftello(stdin) - length;
 
         /* Get lines like "name size".  Note that we ignore size but accept
-         * it for backwards compatibility. */
+         * it for backward compatibility. */
         if ((p = strchr(line, '\n')) == NULL) {
             warn("%s skipping %.40s: too long", Host, line);
             continue;

backends/ninpaths.c

@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@
 **  This version written by Olaf Titz, Feb. 1997.  Public domain.
 **
 **  Various bug fixes, code and documentation improvements since then
-**  in 2001-2003, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2024.
+**  in 2001-2003, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2024,
+**  2025.
 */
 
 #include "portable/system.h"
@@ -353,7 +354,7 @@ pathline(char *c)
         for (c2 = c; *c2 && *c2 != '!'; c2++)
             ;
         if (c2 - c > MAXHOST - 1)
-            /* looks broken, dont bother with rest */
+            /* looks broken, don't bother with rest */
             return 0;
         while (*c2 == '!')
             *c2++ = '\0'; /* skip "!!" too */

configure.ac

@@ -888,7 +888,8 @@ AS_IF([test x"$inn_enable_hardening_flags" = xyes],
      INN_PROG_LD_FLAG([-Wl,-z,now],
                       [LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -Wl,-z,now"], [])])
 
-dnl Now that compiler flags have been checked, remove -Werror from CFLAGS.
+dnl Now that compiler flags have been checked, remove -Wunknown-warning-option
+dnl from CFLAGS.
 CFLAGS=`AS_ECHO(["${CFLAGS}"]) | sed 's/ -Werror=unknown-warning-option//'`
 
 dnl Clean up our LIBS, just for grins.

contrib/thdexpire.in

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ $opt_f = 50000;    # required space in kilobytes
 $opt_i = 5000;     # required space in inodes
 $opt_m = 7;        # minimum normal (class 100) time in days
 $opt_x = 86400;    # absolute minimum hold time in seconds
-$opt_N = 0;        # dont actually delete articles
+$opt_N = 0;        # don't actually delete articles
 $opt_v = 0;        # verbosity level
 $opt_M = 0;        # install man page
 getopts("f:i:m:MNrt:v:x:") || usage();

doc/pod/inn.conf.pod

@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ administrators of the news server should be used.
 
 This parameter is not meant to be used to affect the right-hand side
 of autogenerated Message-IDs; you have to directly use I<domain> in
-readers.conf(5) instead, for backwards-compatible reasons.  (The name of this
+readers.conf(5) instead, for backward compatibility reasons.  (The name of this
 parameter in F<readers.conf> will likely be changed in a future major release
 to disambiguate its use.)
 

doc/pod/libinn_dbz.pod

@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ The original I<dbz> was written by Jon Zeeff <zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us>.
 Later contributions by David Butler and Mark Moraes.  Extensive reworking,
 including this documentation, by Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.toronto.edu> as part
 of the C News project.  MD5 code borrowed from RSA.  Extensive reworking to
-remove backwards compatibility and to add hashes into I<dbz> files by Clayton
+remove backward compatibility and to add hashes into I<dbz> files by Clayton
 O'Neill <coneill@oneill.net>.  Rewritten into POD by Julien Elie.
 
 =head1 SEE ALSO

innfeed/host.h

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ extern unsigned int hostHighwater;
  * CLOSEPERIOD is the number of seconds after connecting that the
  *     connections should be closed down and reinitialized (due to problems
  *     with old NNTP servers that hold history files open. Value of 0 means
- *     dont close down.
+ *     don't close down.
  * STREAMING is a boolean flag to tell if the Host wants its Connections to
  *     do streaming or not.
  * LOWPASSHIGH is the high value for the low-pass filter.

lib/dbz.c

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 **    now <david.robinson@sun.com> (January, 1993).
 **
 **  Major reworking by Clayton O'Neill (coneill@oneill.net).  Removed all the
-**  C News and backwards compatible cruft.  Ripped out all the tagmask stuff
+**  C News and backward compatible cruft.  Ripped out all the tagmask stuff
 **  and replaced it with hashed .pag entries.  This removes the need for base
 **  file access.  Primary bottleneck now appears to be the hash algorithm and
 **  search().  You can change DBZ_INTERNAL_HASH_SIZE in dbz.h to increase the

nnrpd/commands.c

@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ CMDauthinfo(int ac, char *av[])
             return;
         }
 
-        /* For backwards compatibility, we return 481 instead of 502 (which had
+        /* For backward compatibility, we return 481 instead of 502 (which had
          * the same meaning as 481 in RFC 2980). */
         if (code == NNTP_ERR_ACCESS) {
             code = NNTP_FAIL_AUTHINFO_BAD;