Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 14:10:23 -0700 (PDT) From: fox@vader.aacc.cc.md.us To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/66540: [patch] share/man/man4/ppbus.4 wording nits Message-ID: <200405112110.i4BLANW8015344@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/66540; it has been noted by GNATS. From: fox@vader.aacc.cc.md.us To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/66540: [patch] share/man/man4/ppbus.4 wording nits Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 17:00:46 -0400 (EDT) On Tue, 11 May 2004, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > On 2004.05.11 13:00:41 -0700, fox@vader.aacc.cc.md.us wrote: > > > > finite state "automate"/machine/automaton > > Without having read the manual page in question in detail I think the > original is probably almost OK, except that it should be "automata". > That is a rather common term used in computer science. I think automata is a plural, but I don't really care which wording you settle on. I just report them as/when I sees them. :-) -- "I'd ask if you'd found the right sort of isolated wasteland for your citadel of dread yet, but that would be a silly question; you're in Utah, after all." --ESR to Darl McBride (Chief Excessive Ossifier of Squandered Clues Obstination), in http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/mcbride.html
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