From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jul 16 18:43:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6B6837B40A; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 18:43:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 4514A6ACCA; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:13:09 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:13:09 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Nik Clayton Cc: Chern Lee , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UNIX vs Unix Message-ID: <20010717111309.E70499@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010716225849.A29634@clan.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010716225849.A29634@clan.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 10:58:49PM +0100 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday, 16 July 2001 at 22:58:49 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:52:49PM -0700, Chern Lee wrote: >> According to O'Reilly's word list: >> Unix (UNIX in many books, esp. older ones) >> >> UNIX appears about 10 to 1 to Unix in the handbook. At first, I resorted >> to changing all instances of Unix to UNIX to make our document more >> standard, but then realized Unix looks a lot more aesthetically pleasing. >> >> According to O'Reilly, are we a new document or an old book? >> >> Attached is a patch changing all relevant instances of Unix -> UNIX. >> >> I'd like it the other way around. > > Ditto. It's not an acronym, it's a pun -- you don't write "WINDOWS". > It should be "Unix". The word is UNIX. Misspelling it Unix doesn't make it right. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message