On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 06:27:25PM +0300, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > I have complained a while back that this phrase is not that well formed :-)
> I will try again, since is still not fixed, although I raised the flag in > October last year. > Additions are marked like *this*. Removals are marked like (-this-) > "It will guess the broadcast address is the bitwise OR of your system's > IP address with the bitwise negation of the netmask." > IMHO it would be better to be: > "It will guess the broadcast address *which* is the bitwise OR of your > system's > IP address with the bitwise negation of the netmask." > Or: > "It will guess the broadcast address (-is-) *as* the bitwise OR of your > system's > IP address with the bitwise negation of the netmask." These are both changes in meaning. The meaning of the original sentence is It will guess *that* the broadcast address is the bitwise OR of your system's IP address with the bitwise negation of the netmask. which in turn suggests to me an improvement, It will *assume* that the broadcast address is the bitwise OR... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
