From owner-freebsd-doc Tue May 8 11:30: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72E9D37B423 for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 11:30:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f48IU3G85173; Tue, 8 May 2001 11:30:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 11:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200105081830.f48IU3G85173@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: John Baldwin Subject: RE: docs/27209: [PATCH] ascii.7 table rearrangement and uppercas Reply-To: John Baldwin Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/27209; it has been noted by GNATS. From: John Baldwin To: Gerhard Sittig 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 -- 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