From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Sep 22 10:26:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B736415869 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 10:26:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 12924 invoked from network); 22 Sep 1999 17:26:15 -0000 Received: from userab83.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.130.182) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 22 Sep 1999 17:26:15 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id SAA00340; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 18:17:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 18:17:29 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Nik Clayton Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai , Nick Sanders , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Gnats Subject: Re: docs/7914: no elf(5) manpage Message-ID: <19990922181728.A284@marder-1> References: <199909210030.RAA64767@freefall.freebsd.org> <19990921195010.C22025@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <19990922002954.B32878@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990922002954.B32878@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 12:29:55AM +0100 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 12:29:55AM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 07:50:11PM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > * Nick Sanders (fishy@hotbot.com) [990921 03:54]: > > > .data > > > This section holds initialised data that contribute to the program's > > > memory image. This section is of type SHT_PROGBITS. The attribute types > > > are SHF_ALLOC and SHF_WRITE. > > > > > > Initialised should be "initialized". > > > > If you are a United States citizen. I prefer the Queen's [Original/Olde] > > English myself. > > FWIW, I think we can safely assume that the default English variant is > US English. There was a sweep through the man pages about a year or > so ago, correcting things like this and converting them to the US format. > Ah, my favourite spelling debate:) If you consult the OED you will find that such words really end in ~ize. In the latest versions they also include ~ise, but only as an *alternative* spelling. I suspect that it is because Americans use ~ize that most people assume that we, in the UK, should use ~ise and because of this widespread (mis)spelling it is now included in the OED. To quote the manpage for the ``-b'' (British) option to spell(1) on Suns: -b Check British spelling. Besides preferring "centre", "colour", "programme", "speciality", "travelled", and so on, this option insists upon -ise in words like standardize, despite what Fowler and the OED say. So I vote for "Initialize" (but also for "colour", "favour" etc ;-) ) > At some point we may put together a doc/en_GB.ISO_8859-1/ directory > hierarchy, but I have a few other things on my plate first. . . > > N > -- > [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, > non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs > the links. > -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message