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From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Spelling of ASCII in man pages?
In-Reply-To: <199909090024.UAA46785@cc158233-a.catv1.md.home.com> from "Stephen J. Roznowski" at "Sep 8, 1999 08:24:08 pm"
To: sjr@home.net (Stephen J. Roznowski)
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 05:16:01 -0500 (CDT)
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> I've noticed on several of the man pages that ASCII has various
> spellings: ASCII, Ascii, ascii.
> 
> Should these be corrected to ASCII?

Yes.  ASCII is an acronym, and should always be all caps.

-Mike
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