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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu, Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Capitalization in man pages.
Date: Tue,  6 Dec 2005 06:46:52 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051206124652.32ECD6A6@dexter-peak.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7359f0490512052301j592031dft96b46e860da7198d@mail.gmail.com>

thanks for the effort.

the plan 9 (and antecedent unix) papers and man pages really made the systems'
influence great.

- erik

Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> writes

| I spent most of my time for two years editing these pages
| for publication.  To avoid the confusion that can be introduced
| by capitalizing a magic word, where possible I rewrote the
| sentence to avoid the problem.  Not
|     Qsort sorts data
| but
|     The qsort function sorts data


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-06 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-05 12:07 [9fans] irc answers - man and memmove Russ Cox
2005-12-05 19:07 ` Sascha Retzki
2005-12-06  1:09 ` Paul Lalonde
2005-12-06  1:14   ` Rob Pike
2005-12-06  1:17     ` Paul Lalonde
2005-12-06  1:48       ` Russ Cox
2005-12-07  9:57         ` Gorka guardiola
2005-12-07 10:41           ` Lucio De Re
2005-12-06  1:22     ` erik quanstrom
2005-12-06  6:31     ` [9fans] Capitalization in man pages Lyndon Nerenberg
2005-12-06  7:01       ` Rob Pike
2005-12-06  9:44         ` Charles Forsyth
2005-12-06 11:01         ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2005-12-06 11:17           ` Charles Forsyth
2005-12-06 11:27             ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2005-12-06 11:12         ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2005-12-06 11:18           ` Lucio De Re
2005-12-06 12:22         ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2005-12-06 12:32           ` Charles Forsyth
2005-12-06 12:40             ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2005-12-06 13:02             ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2005-12-06 13:41               ` Charles Forsyth
2005-12-06 13:54                 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2005-12-06 14:30                   ` John Stalker
2005-12-06 18:11                     ` Charles Forsyth
2005-12-06 18:31                       ` Rob Pike
2005-12-08  3:58                         ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2005-12-08  4:10                           ` Russ Cox
2005-12-08  4:55                             ` Uriel
2005-12-07  3:56                       ` Jeff Sickel
2005-12-06 15:57               ` jmk
2005-12-07  0:11                 ` geoff
2005-12-07  0:17                   ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2005-12-07  0:22                   ` Steve Simon
2005-12-08  3:55                 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2005-12-06 12:46         ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2005-12-06 15:02           ` Brantley Coile

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