Grammar issues

[Alan Welsh]

Greetings,

[Section 
4.1.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html#Read-Timeout) says,

"Assigning a timeout value prevents read operations from blocking indefinitely. 
But bear in mind that there are other ways gawk can stall waiting for an input 
device to be ready. A network client can sometimes take a long time to 
establish a connection before it can start reading any data, or the attempt to 
open a FIFO special file for reading can block indefinitely until some other 
process opens it for writing."

BUT,

The verb "block" cannot be used intransitively here, since that meaning is 
inappropriate. Moreover, as a transitive verb, the read operation doesn't block 
anything. Instead, it gets blocked by some other mechanism. In other words, the 
read operation is the object of the verb, not the subject. This mistake occurs 
twice in the example paragraph.

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Section "[How to 
Contribute](https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html#How-To-Contribute)"
 says,

"In the hopes of doing something more broad, I acquired the awklang.org domain. 
Late in 2017, a volunteer took on the task of managing it.

If you have written an interesting awk program, that you would like to share 
with the rest of the world, please see http://www.awklang.org and use the 
“Contact” link."

BUT,

The comparative of "broad" is "broader", not "more broad". Also, the following 
is a restrictive clause, so the preceding comma should be deleted:

"that you would like to share with the rest of the world"

Cheers,

Alan

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