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Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> writes:
> It does serve a useful purpose, though, which is why it has endured.
> If you were to have a man page that said =E2=80=98Putc(3) returns =E2=80=
=A6=E2=80=99 then the
> automated tools (and web links) that find Putc.3 wouldn=E2=80=99t be able=
 to since
> it doesn=E2=80=99t exist.

Moreover - if FreeBSD were written in Pascal, it might not matter, but
in C, _exit(2) and _Exit(3) are two different functions.

(I'm sure there are other examples without a leading underscore)

(eww, starting a sentence with a non-alphabetic character would be even
worse...)

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no