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Date:      Fri, 12 Nov 1999 20:30:02 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/grep/doc grep.1
Message-ID:  <382BFA3A.1A23291B@newsguy.com>
References:  <26388.942307222@axl.noc.iafrica.com>

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Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 22:46:47 PST, "David E. O'Brien" wrote:
> 
> > obrien      1999/11/10 22:46:47 PST
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     contrib/grep/doc     grep.1
> >   Log:
> >   Spell command names correctly.  Even when they appear at the begining
> >   of a sentance.
> 
> Are you sure about this?  Many of our manpages follow the convention
> that commands should be capitalized if they head a sentence.  Are you
> declaring war on them?

I thought the recommended practice was to reword the sentence so to
avoid having the command as the first word in it. That's what I did
in the man pages I wrote.

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Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
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dcs@freebsd.org

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	Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers
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