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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
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On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 23:59:32 GMT, Nik Clayton wrote:

> I concur with Greg.  "The cat(1) command..." or "The cat(1) utility"
> (or even "The /etc/rc.conf file...") all read as being stilted and
> redundant.

By the way, I thought about the argument that the use of mixed case
forces the reader to verify the case of the actual command.  Since we
always use the correct case in the synopsis, I'm not even sure that
there's anything wrong with using mixed case in the manpages.

:-)

And this from someone who has diffs to convert man1/[a-c]*.1 . :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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