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From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: docs/77535: [PATCH] s/CD-ROM/CDROM/g in ports chapter of the
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The following reply was made to PR docs/77535; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
To: David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>,
	"Jesus R. Camou" <jcamou@cox.net>, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
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Subject: Re: docs/77535: [PATCH] s/CD-ROM/CDROM/g in ports chapter of the handbook
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:09:35 +0100

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 On 2005.02.15 11:53:07 +0100, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
 > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 08:24:32AM +0100, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
 > >=20
 > > 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.
 >=20
 > 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.
 
 If that is the general sentiment (I don't really care), I think we
 should update the FDP word list to reflect this.
 
 BTW. semi-intresting google stats:
 
 9,950,000 for CDROM
 28,800,000 for "CD-ROM"
 
 --=20
 Simon L. Nielsen
 
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