Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 09:45:28 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, obrien@NUXI.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/grep/doc grep.1 Message-ID: <6216.942392728@axl.noc.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Nov 1999 23:59:32 GMT." <19991111235932.A62263@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 23:59:32 GMT, Nik Clayton wrote: > I concur with Greg. "The cat(1) command..." or "The cat(1) utility" > (or even "The /etc/rc.conf file...") all read as being stilted and > redundant. By the way, I thought about the argument that the use of mixed case forces the reader to verify the case of the actual command. Since we always use the correct case in the synopsis, I'm not even sure that there's anything wrong with using mixed case in the manpages. :-) And this from someone who has diffs to convert man1/[a-c]*.1 . :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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