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Fix spelling [1], appease igor and mandoc -Tlint, and adopt the
language style to be more consistent with our corpus.

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.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd March 4, 2017
.Dd May 21, 2017
.Dt EFIVAR 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm efivar
.Nd UEFI environemnt variable interaction
.Nd UEFI environment variable interaction
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl abdDHlLNpRtw
@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ This program manages
.Pq UEFI
environment variables.
UEFI variables have three part: A namespace, a name and a value.
The namespace is a GUID that's self assigned by the group defining the
The namespace is a GUID that is self assigned by the group defining the
variables.
The name is a Unicode name for the variable.
The value is binary data.
@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ The following options are available:
Specify the name of the variable to operate on.
The
.Ar name
argument is the GUID of variable, followed by a dash, followed by the
argument is the GUID of the variable, followed by a dash, followed by the
UEFI variable name.
The GUID may be in numeric format, or may be one of the well known
symbolic name (see
@ -86,19 +86,19 @@ This flag implies
unless the
.Fl -append
flag is given.
This is not well understood and currently unimplemented.
This behavior is not well understood and is currently unimplemented.
.It Fl a Fl -append
Append the specified value to the UEFI variable rather than replacing
it.p
it.
.It Fl t Ar attr Fl -attributes Ar attr
Specify, in user hostile hexidecimal, the attributes for this
Specify, in hexadecimal, the attributes for this
variable.
See section 7.2 (GetVariable subsection, Related Definitions) of the
UEFI Specification for hex values to use.
.It Fl A Fl -ascii
Display the variable data as modified ascii: All printable characters
are printed, while unprintable characters are rendered as a two-digit
hexadecimal number preceeded by a % character.
hexadecimal number preceded by a % character.
.It Fl b Fl -binary
Display the variable data as binary data.
Usually will be used with the
@ -155,29 +155,27 @@ can be used to specify simple strings.
Display the
.Ar name
environment variable.
.El
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
The
.Nm
program is intended to be compatible (strict superset) with a progam
of the same name included in the Red Hat libefivar package.
.Pp
Except the
program is intended to be compatible (strict superset) with a program
of the same name included in the Red Hat libefivar package,
but the
.Fl d
and
.Fl -print-decimal
flags are not implmenented and never will be.
flags are not implemented and never will be.
.Pp
The
.Fl d
flag is a short-hand for
flag is short for
.Fl -device-path .
.Sh SEE ALSO
Appendix A of the UEFI specification has the format for GUIDs.
All GUIDs
.Dq Globally Unique Identifiers
have the format described in RFC 4122.
.El
.Pp
.Xr efivar 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm