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Date:      Mon, 7 May 2001 22:35:43 +0200
From:      Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 printf.9
Message-ID:  <20010507223543.N253@speedy.gsinet>
In-Reply-To: <20010507092812.B15075@wopr.caltech.edu>; from mph@astro.caltech.edu on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:28:12AM -0700
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On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:28 -0700, Matthew Hunt wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 06:47:54PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> 
> > And it's not just FreeBSD - in every ASCII table I've seen,
> > the special characters' names are in all caps.
> 
> Except for Ye Officialle FreeBSD ASCII Table, "man 7 ascii".

Now that I read it (didn't know about it before) I realize it's
somewhat hard to work with.  Should I send-pr a patch to make the
column layout ls(1) like (or like newspaper columns usually are
arranged)?  That's how I know all the other ASCII tables and how
I would expect tables to look like. :)

And while I'm at this I could change the specials to uppercase.


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