From owner-cvs-all Mon May 7 19:16:28 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3D1C937B422 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 19:16:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 4523 invoked by uid 0); 8 May 2001 02:16:21 -0000 Received: from pd9508867.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO speedy.gsinet) (217.80.136.103) by mail.gmx.net (mp030-rz3) with SMTP; 8 May 2001 02:16:21 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by speedy.gsinet (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA14024 for cvs-all@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 7 May 2001 22:35:43 +0200 Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 22:35:43 +0200 From: Gerhard Sittig Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 printf.9 Message-ID: <20010507223543.N253@speedy.gsinet> References: <200105071248.f47Cmdn09537@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010507184754.G39862@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20010507092812.B15075@wopr.caltech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20010507092812.B15075@wopr.caltech.edu>; from mph@astro.caltech.edu on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:28:12AM -0700 Organization: System Defenestrators Inc. Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:28 -0700, Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 06:47:54PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > And it's not just FreeBSD - in every ASCII table I've seen, > > the special characters' names are in all caps. > > Except for Ye Officialle FreeBSD ASCII Table, "man 7 ascii". Now that I read it (didn't know about it before) I realize it's somewhat hard to work with. Should I send-pr a patch to make the column layout ls(1) like (or like newspaper columns usually are arranged)? That's how I know all the other ASCII tables and how I would expect tables to look like. :) And while I'm at this I could change the specials to uppercase. virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message