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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Capitalization in man pages.
Date: Tue,  6 Dec 2005 03:01:30 -0800
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On Dec 5, 2005, at 11:01 PM, Rob Pike wrote:

> Fix the text.

Okay, Mr. Grumpy :-)

The nice thing about standards is there are so many to choose from.

So which of the 15 style manuals sitting on my shelf should I follow  
for the rewrite :-)

My philosophy is that man pages describe code.  I don't capitalize  
function names, etc., in my code, and likewise in my man pages. Ymmv.

--lyndon

P.S.  I think "Nasa" is an abomination as well, but who am I to fight  
the New York Times?