Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 11:30:03 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: RE: docs/27209: [PATCH] ascii.7 table rearrangement and uppercas Message-ID: <200105081830.f48IU3G85173@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/27209; it has been noted by GNATS. From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: docs/27209: [PATCH] ascii.7 table rearrangement and uppercas Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 11:21:14 -0700 (PDT) On 08-May-01 Gerhard Sittig wrote: > >>Description: > > The tables' layout in the ascii(7) manpage are hard to read since > indices are incremented "sideways" (looking like fmt(1) output). That is a matter of opinion. /usr/share/misc/ascii is laid out in the same format. Unless there is a significant favoring of one format over the other the change is just gratuitous. > There has been confusion about the missing capitalization of the > special characters (0x01 to 0x1F). All the literature refers to > them in uppercase letters. The manpage differs from this > convention. Not all literature does. :) Also, this is Un*x after all, and Un*x has a great affinity for lower case. K&R calls '\0' "the null character". Also, the tab character is '\t' in C, not '\T'. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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