Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 16:13:00 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/unifdef unifdef.1 Message-ID: <20021206001300.B9C7D2A8A9@canning.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20021204154157.GA49926@sunbay.com>
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Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 03:09:32PM +0000, David Malone wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 06:42:49AM -0800, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > ru 2002/12/04 06:42:49 PST > > >=20 > > > Modified files: > > > usr.bin/unifdef unifdef.1=20 > > > Log: > > > mdoc(7) police: s/nul character/null character/. > >=20 > > I always though it was the NULL pointer, but the nul character, > > as given in the ascii man page? > >=20 > http://www.asciitable.com/ > > "NUL character", or "null character", but not "nul character" -- > the "nul" word doesn't exist, while NUL is the abbr. from "null": > > http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?nul NUL is not an abbreviation. It is a name. Just like FreeBSD is a name. http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?freebsd "The NUL character" is perfectly correct. It is just as valid as "The XON character" or "The NL character". Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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