From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jul 16 15:21: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (pc-62-31-42-140-hy.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.42.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7CDC37B406 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:20:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f6GLwnP30883; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 22:58:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 22:58:49 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Chern Lee Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UNIX vs Unix Message-ID: <20010716225849.A29634@clan.nothing-going-on.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from chern@meow.osd.bsdi.com on Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:52:49PM -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:52:49PM -0700, Chern Lee wrote: > According to O'Reilly's word list: > Unix (UNIX in many books, esp. older ones) >=20 > UNIX appears about 10 to 1 to Unix in the handbook. At first, I resorted > to changing all instances of Unix to UNIX to make our document more > standard, but then realized Unix looks a lot more aesthetically pleasing. >=20 > According to O'Reilly, are we a new document or an old book? >=20 > Attached is a patch changing all relevant instances of Unix -> UNIX. >=20 > I'd like it the other way around. Ditto. It's not an acronym, it's a pun -- you don't write "WINDOWS". =20 It should be "Unix". N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjtTY5kACgkQk6gHZCw343X/zwCfSX18KM0WjOSmfhxnjfuXlcEb btkAn2617Wa9Wj9EtiIORVaRV2S8eVU5 =Ftj4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message