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Date:      09 Jan 2003 18:13:06 -0800
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 identcpu.c
Message-ID:  <1042164785.430.0.camel@homer.nextgig.com>
In-Reply-To: <200301091640.h09GeAYo016816@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
References:  <XFMail.20030108134204.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <xzpznqafohe.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200301091640.h09GeAYo016816@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 08:40, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Thu, 09 Jan 2003 14:21:17 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> said:
> 
> > Hmm, I never noticed the hyphen (in front of MHz) before, though I see
> > now that it's been there for a long time.  It should go away.
> 
> Um, no, it shouldn't.  (At least not in the en_US locale.)  Compound
> modifiers get hyphens in the place of spaces.

Yes, as in "brownish-green trout" or "21-speed bicycle."

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        "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                              wes@softweyr.com



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