From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jan 22 6:20: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from pom.INS.cwru.edu (pom.INS.CWRU.Edu [129.22.8.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 166E837B416 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 06:20:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from po.cwru.edu (adsl-64-108-88-128.dsl.clevoh.ameritech.net [64.108.88.128]) by pom.INS.cwru.edu with ESMTP (8.8.8+cwru/CWRU-1.0-smtprelay) id JAA24646; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:19:59 -0500 (EST) (from sjh13@po.cwru.edu for ) Message-ID: <3C4D750E.9060300@po.cwru.edu> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:19:58 -0500 From: Steven Huwig User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20020107 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/34163: [PATCH] section 12.7.1.1.4 (spelling mistake) in Handbook This term is quite old, going back at least to the mid-70s in jargon and probably much earlier. The word `automagic' occurred in advertising (for a shirt-ironing gadget) as far back as the late 1940s. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Hiten Pandya wrote: >The section 12.7.1.1.4 of the handbook, i.e. RAID subsection, has a >incorrect spelling in the title. >Current title: Making it All Automagic (wrong) >New title: Making it all Automatic (correct) >patch supplied below. >regards, > - Hiten > - http://tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/automagically.html "Automatically, but in a way that, for some reason (typically because it is too complicated, or too ugly, or perhaps even too trivial), the speaker doesn't feel like explaining to you. See magic. "The C-INTERCAL compiler generates C, then automagically invokes cc(1) to produce an executable." This term is quite old, going back at least to the mid-70s in jargon and probably much earlier. The word `automagic' occurred in advertising (for a shirt-ironing gadget) as far back as the late 1940s." Whether or not this is an appropriate term to use in FreeBSD documentation remains to be seen, but it probably isn't a typo :) -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message