Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 09:44:04 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/unifdef unifdef.1 Message-ID: <20021204231404.GJ62813@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20021204154157.GA49926@sunbay.com> References: <200212041442.gB4EgnQL042381@repoman.freebsd.org> <20021204150932.GA47420@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <20021204154157.GA49926@sunbay.com>
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On Wednesday, 4 December 2002 at 17:41:57 +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 03:09:32PM +0000, David Malone wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 06:42:49AM -0800, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >>> ru 2002/12/04 06:42:49 PST >>> >>> Modified files: >>> usr.bin/unifdef unifdef.1 >>> Log: >>> mdoc(7) police: s/nul character/null character/. >> >> I always though it was the NULL pointer, but the nul character, >> as given in the ascii man page? >> > http://www.asciitable.com/ > > "NUL character", or "null character", but not "nul character" -- > the "nul" word doesn't exist, while NUL is the abbr. from "null": > > http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?nul This shows that this particular dictionary doesn't know the word "nul". You have ample evidence that it exists. The term which doesn't have any meaning is "null character". The reference in unifdef is obviously to the ASCII NUL character, not a NULL pointer. You might have a point in changing "nul" to "NUL", but you've changed the meaning in changing it to "NULL". You should at least back out this change. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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