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Date:      Wed, 7 Aug 2002 09:34:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Chern Lee <chern@FreeBSD.org>, <freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org>, Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>, Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org>, <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: docs/38225: change "CDROM" to "CD-ROM"
Message-ID:  <20020807092150.X70872-100000@blues.jpj.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020730204139.GR17277@clan.nothing-going-on.org>

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Nik Clayton wrote:

> FWIW,
>
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 08:39:37AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > Given that the paper that _defines_ what a CD-ROM looks like uses CD-ROM,
> > I think that is pretty definitive. :)
>
> If pushed, I'm inclined to agree.  However, it's also not anything I'm
> going to lose sleep over.  If someone's willing to put the effort in to
> go over the {src,doc} trees and do an intelligent s/CDROM/CD-ROM/ then
> I'm not going to stop them.  But I do think we have other things that
> the time could be spent on.

I've prepared a patch against the -CURRENT src/, to accompany the earlier
one for doc/ and www/.  It would change not just documentation but some
textual output (if that is considered beyond the scope of such a patch, I
don't mind scaling it back).  I left intact some instances of "CDROM" in
the Japanese documentation because I was not sure whether they referred to
some of the exceptions.  I also left intact the names of all variables,
macros, and so forth.

According to diffstat, this second patch would make 263 changes in 74
files (including share/freebsd/dict as requested, loosely speaking, by
blackend).  It is at
<URL:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~trevor/doc/38225-src.diff.bz2>.
-- 
Trevor Johnson


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