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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu, Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Capitalization in man pages.
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Date: Tue,  6 Dec 2005 06:46:52 -0600
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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