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Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 09:44:26 -0500
From: splite@purdue.edu
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] first capital letter in function names at man pages, why?
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On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 04:27:14PM +0200, Fco.J.Ballesteros wrote:
> BTW, from what has been said, I think that using the function name
> as-is (no caps) in the manual page would suffice to keep all of us happy.
> Am I right? Or someone already discarded this fix?

You are indeed right.  man pages are reference works, not the Canterbury
Tales.  If their usefulness as references would be impaired by slavish
adherence to formal English syntax then stuff the rules.