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Date:      Fri, 31 May 2002 08:33:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Archie Cobbs <archie@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdio fgets.3
Message-ID:  <200205311533.g4VFXQX00935@arch20m.dellroad.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020531061908.GD6953@sunbay.com> "from Ruslan Ermilov at May 31, 2002 09:19:08 am"

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Ruslan Ermilov writes:
> >   Log:
> >   Grammar fix: "contents" is plural.
> > 
> I think both are acceptable, "contents" is only _usually_ in the
> plural context, according to www.m-w.com.  More of "contents is":
> 
> gnu/usr.bin/tar/tar.1:files are listed, otherwise the entire table of contents is listed.
> lib/libc/stdtime/strftime.3:Otherwise, zero is returned and the buffer contents is indeterminate.
> share/man/man8/picobsd.8:whose contents is generally very short and suitable for this

OK.. it just looked funny to me :-)

Do you think we should bother changing the others? Since you are more
of an mdoc expert than me I'll leave that up to you.

Cheers,
-Archie

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