Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 21:20:46 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive article.sgml Message-ID: <20040824182046.GA1877@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20040824181446.GB760@zaphod.nitro.dk> References: <200408241800.i7OI0p8J029409@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040824181446.GB760@zaphod.nitro.dk>
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On 2004-08-24 20:14, "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 2004.08.24 18:00:51 +0000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > keramida 2004-08-24 18:00:51 UTC > > > > FreeBSD doc repository > > > > Modified files: > > en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive article.sgml > > Log: > > Use &ms-dos; for referring to MS-DOS to match the style of &windows; in > > the same sentence. > > When I went through the documentation I left all instances of DOS > alone and only changed MS-DOS to &ms-dos;, since DOS is not a > trademark of Microsoft, but MS-DOS is. Ah, I see now. > It seems rather random if DOS or MS-DOS were used, though in the > context of the FreeBSD documentation there probably isn't really a > difference... Hmm. If you think it's really not necessary to change instances of DOS to &ms-dos; I'll leave the rest that I come across unchanged. Do you also want me to back this one out? I don't have a strong preference for DOS or &ms-dos; either.
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