From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Capitalization in man pages. 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Dec 2005 05:54:43 PST."
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Date: Tue,  6 Dec 2005 14:30:42 +0000
From: John Stalker <stalker@maths.tcd.ie>
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> the typeset pages.)  But the unwritten style guide for BSD man pages  
> says function names (and almost everything else) are case preserved.
> 
> --lyndon

Are you sure?  I just looked at Rob's example, qsort(3), on my FreeBSD
system.  It mostly follows his usage, but there was

  Mergesort() is optimized for data with pre-existing order

I think FreeBSD generally follows the traditional UNIX usage in this
regard.  The traditional usage worked quite well when identifiers
were all short and lower case.  The problems begin when people name
their functions things like i2d_PKCS8PrivateKey_nid_bio. 


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John Stalker
University of Dublin, Trinity College
School of Mathematics