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.\" Manual page for fw
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+.\" Revision 1.3 1999/07/30 06:49:00 mdw
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.\" Revision 1.2 1999/07/26 23:31:04 mdw
.\" Document lots of new features and syntax.
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.TP
.I "Support for Unix-domain sockets"
Connections from and to Unix-domain sockets can be handled just as
-easily as more normal Internet sckets. Access control doesn't work on
+easily as more normal Internet sockets. Access control doesn't work on
Unix domain sockets, though. (Yet.)
.SS "Command line options"
The
Any further command line arguments are interpreted as configuration
lines to be read. Configuration supplied in command line arguments has
precisely the same syntax as configuration in files. If there are no
-configurmation statements on the command line, and no
+configuration statements on the command line, and no
.B \-f
options were supplied, configuration is read from standard input, if
stdin is not a terminal.
There are four types of characters.
.TP
.I "word constituent characters"
-Word consistituent characters are gathered together into words.
+Word constituent characters are gathered together into words.
Depending on its surrounding context, a word might act as a keyword or a
string. All alphanumerics are word constituents, as is the hyphen
.RB ` \- '.
.RB [ = ]
.I value
.RS
-Assignes the variable
+Assigns the variable
.I var
the value
.I value