diff -up ./man/minicom.1.orig ./man/minicom.1
--- ./man/minicom.1.orig	2010-08-09 21:54:03.000000000 +0200
+++ ./man/minicom.1	2011-02-09 11:24:42.972547002 +0100
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ minicom \- friendly serial communication
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .B minicom
 is a communication program which somewhat resembles the shareware
-program TELIX but is free with source code and runs under most unices.
+program TELIX but is free with source code and runs under most Unices.
 Features include dialing directory with auto-redial, support for
 UUCP-style lock files on serial devices, a separate script language
 interpreter, capture to file, multiple users with individual
@@ -35,10 +35,10 @@ minicom. For most systems, reasonable de
 .TP 0.5i
 .B \-o
 Do not initialize. Minicom will skip the initialization code.  This
-option is handy if you quitted from minicom without resetting, and
+option is handy if you quit from minicom without resetting, and
 then want to restart a session. It is potentially dangerous though: no
 check for lock files etc. is made, so a normal user could interfere
-with things like uucp... Maybe this will be taken out later. For now
+with things like UUCP... maybe this will be taken out later. For now
 it is assumed, that users who are given access to a modem are
 responsible enough for their actions.
 .TP 0.5i
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ and that have the relevant information i
 translation of characters with the high bit set. With this flag on,
 minicom will try to translate the IBM line characters to ASCII. Many PC-unix
 clones will display character correctly without translation (Linux in a
-special mode, Coherent and Sco).
+special mode, Coherent and SCO).
 .TP 0.5i
 .B \-L
 Ditto but assume screen uses an ISO8859 character set.
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ completed.
 .BR P seudo
 terminal
 to use. This overrides the terminal port defined in the configuration
-files, but only if it is a pseudo tty. The filename supplied must be of
+files, but only if it is a pseudo TTY. The filename supplied must be of
 the form (/dev/)tty[p-z/][0-f], (/dev/)pts[p-z/][0-f] or 
 (/dev/)pty[p-z/][0-f]. For example, /dev/ttyp1, pts/0 or /dev/ptyp2.
 .TP 0.5i
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ sensible is to use device names, such as
 user creates his own configuration file, it will show up in his home
 directory as ".minirc.dfl" or ".minirc.\fIconfiguration\fR\|".
 .SH USE
-Minicom is window based. To popup a window with the function you
+Minicom is window based. To pop-up a window with the function you
 want, press Control-A (from now on, we will use C-A to mean
 Control-A), and then the function key (a-z or A-Z). By pressing C-A
 first and then 'z', a help screen comes up with a short summary of all
@@ -500,8 +500,8 @@ file and directory menu is used.
 .TP 0.5i
 .B A - Serial device
 /dev/tty1 or /dev/ttyS1 for most people.
-/dev/cua<n> is still possible under linux, but not recommended any more 
-because these devices are obsolete and many newly installed systems 
+/dev/cua<n> is still possible under GNU/Linux, but no longer recommended
+as these devices are obsolete and many systems 
 with kernel 2.2.x or newer don't have them. 
 Use /dev/ttyS<n> instead. 
 You may also have /dev/modem as a symlink to the real device.
@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ If you have modems connected to two or m
 all of them here in a list separated by space, comma or semicolon. When
 Minicom starts, it checks the list until it finds an available modem and 
 uses that one. (However, you can't specify different init strings to 
-them ..at least not yet.)
+them... at least not yet.)
 .br
 To use a UNIX socket for communication the device name must be prefixed
 with "unix#" following by the full path and the filename of the socket.
@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ establishes, minicom goes 'online'. If t
 switches to 'offline' again.
 .TP 0.5i
 .B B - Lock file location
-On most systems This should be /usr/spool/uucp. Linux systems use
+On most systems This should be /usr/spool/uucp. GNU/Linux systems use
 /var/lock. If this directory does not exist,
 minicom will not attempt to use lockfiles.
 .TP 0.5i
@@ -799,7 +799,7 @@ to get the escape key, you had to press 
 .PP
 As of release 1.3 this has bettered a little: now a 1-second timeout
 is builtin, like in vi. For systems that have the select() system call
-the timeout is 0.5 seconds. And... surprise: a special Linux-dependant
+the timeout is 0.5 seconds. And... surprise: a special Linux-dependent
 .BR hack " :-) was added. Now, minicom can separate the escape key and"
 escape-sequences. To see how dirty this was done, look into wkeys.c.
 But it works like a charm!
@@ -837,7 +837,7 @@ for new versions since 1.78, helped by s
 filipg@paranoia.com wrote the History buffer searching to 1.79.
 .br
 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@conectiva.com.br) did the internationalization 
-and the Brasilian Portuguese translations.
+and the Brazilian Portuguese translations.
 .br
 Jim Seymour (jseymour@jimsun.LinxNet.com) wrote the multiple modem support 
 and the filename selection window used since 1.80.