Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:00:49 GMT From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/77535: [PATCH] s/CD-ROM/CDROM/g in ports chapter of the handbook Message-ID: <200502151100.j1FB0nv6051789@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/77535; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> To: David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>, "Jesus R. Camou" <jcamou@cox.net>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: docs/77535: [PATCH] s/CD-ROM/CDROM/g in ports chapter of the handbook Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:53:07 +0100 On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 08:24:32AM +0100, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > > Well, this is a "sensitive" problem that has been massively discussed on > -doc in past; for historic reason CDROM has been used in FreeBSD docs > (see Walnuts Creek CDs set...). > For consistency, it will be a huge work to change every > instance of the word in the doc/ tree, and I'm not sure it'll worth the > pain, the time, the bits used, etc. > I was not clear enough; CD-ROM seems to be the more widely used spelling, most of new additions use CD-ROM, "legacy" docs use CDROM. Since CD-ROM may be seen as the right solution, let's keep the old spelling for the moment and just use CD-ROM in every new additions. Marchelp
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