Proposed addition to the mail section of the handbook
Tom Rhodes
trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Tue Dec 2 18:30:31 UTC 2003
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 18:39:43 +0100
Christian Brueffer <chris at unixpages.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:44:20AM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:27:45 +0100
> > Christian Brueffer <chris at unixpages.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:22:17AM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 10:00:21 +0100
> > > > Josef El-Rayes <j.el-rayes at daemon.li> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Christian Brueffer <chris at unixpages.org> wrote:
> > > > > > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:18:25PM +0100, Josef El-Rayes wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > > line 72: it is "manpage" not "man page".
> > > > >
> > > > > > Actually it is 'manual page'.
> > > > >
> > > > > i prefer too, the expression 'manual page', but as
> > > > > bill used the short form, i just wanted to point out
> > > > > that o'reilly writes it 'manpage' and not 'man page'.
> > > > >
> > > > > (http://www.oreilly.com/oreilly/author/stylesheet.html#M).
> > > >
> > > > It always depends on who you talk to too. Some people say man
> > > > page, some use manual page, some use manpage. Trust me, this
> > > > is a bikeshed you don't want to step into... :)
> > > >
> > >
> > > Of course. What I meant to say was 'manual page is what we usually use
> > > for our documentation' :-)
> >
> > I like manual page as well. This was probably keramida's fault now
> > that I think about it... :P
> >
>
> Certainly. When is he about to return anyway? Maybe he can teach us
> how to process PRs with military discipline ;-)
Not sure when his term is up, but hopefully soon. It will be a lot
of fun to play with him again... :)
--
Tom Rhodes
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