On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 11:24:09PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 30 March 2007 22:57, Steve Langasek wrote: > > 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... > As it is only used as a default, I would say "assume" is not an > improvement as "assume" implies that weird things could happen if the > assumption is incorrect. Ok, in that case I would suggest getting rid of the indeterminate subject altogether and writing: The default broadcast address is the bitwise OR of your system's IP address with the bitwise negation of the netmask. or The default broadcast address offered [...] > A possible improvement would be "... it will calculate the broadcast > address as ...", but I've just reverted back to the original text as IMO > that is fine too. Yeah, the original is hardly broken, but so long as attention has been drawn to it... :) -- 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]
