docs/77535: [PATCH] s/CD-ROM/CDROM/g in ports chapter of the handbook

Marc Fonvieille blackend at FreeBSD.org
Tue Feb 15 10:53:18 UTC 2005


On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 08:24:32AM +0100, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> 
> Well, this is a "sensitive" problem that has been massively discussed on
> -doc in past; for historic reason CDROM has been used in FreeBSD docs
> (see Walnuts Creek CDs set...).
> For consistency, it will be a huge work to change every
> instance of the word in the doc/ tree, and I'm not sure it'll worth the
> pain, the time, the bits used, etc.
>

I was not clear enough; CD-ROM seems to be the more widely used
spelling, most of new additions use CD-ROM, "legacy" docs use CDROM.
Since CD-ROM may be seen as the right solution, let's keep the old
spelling for the moment and just use CD-ROM in every new additions.

Marc



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