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Date:      Mon, 04 Jun 2001 16:19:31 -0700
From:      Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
To:        chris@calldei.com
Cc:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FAQ patch #1: Repairing all the stuff between <question> tags 
Message-ID:  <20010604231931.366733E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010604172925.M80472@holly.calldei.com>; from chris@calldei.com on "Mon, 04 Jun 2001 17:29:25 -0500"

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Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> writes:
> On Monday, June 04, 2001, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> > This isn't (necessarily) your fault, but I notice the acronym PPP
> > written in various ways, such as PPP, ppp, and Ppp.  Might 
> > be nice if they were all consistent.
> 
>    Yeah, that was a last-minute fix, actually.  I think that the
> authors had intended for it to be "ppp", but it ended up "Ppp"
> at the beginning of a sentence.  I'm keeping it "ppp" in the
> <question> stuff when it refers to the application, but "PPP" (in
> only two questions) when it refers to the protocol:

Why not use "&man.ppp.8;" in the question?  It makes it clear that
you're talking about the program, not the protocol.

> 
> +         <para>Why am I having problems talking PPP to NeXTStep
> +         <para>PPP has hung.  What can I do?</para>
> 
> -- 
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> | Chris Costello    | Tomorrow will be canceled due to lack of interest. |
> | chris@calldei.com |                                                    |
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