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Date:      Mon, 7 May 2001 18:47:54 +0300
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 printf.9
Message-ID:  <20010507184754.G39862@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010507083529.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 08:35:29AM -0700
References:  <200105071248.f47Cmdn09537@freefall.freebsd.org> <XFMail.010507083529.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 08:35:29AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> On 07-May-01 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > ru          2001/05/07 05:48:39 PDT
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     share/man/man9       printf.9 
> >   Log:
> >   A bit of markup and spelling fixes.
> 
> Err, NULL (for pointers) is capitalized, but I thought the nul char was just
> that: nul.  No caps or anything.  Also, this manpage was up for review on -doc
> for a week, it would have been nice if you had made suggestions then.

fgrep -B 2 -A 1 -w NUL /usr/src/usr.bin/find/find.1

It prints the pathname of the current file to standard output, followed by an
.Tn ASCII
.Tn NUL
character (character code 0).

There are other examples all over the source tree: bin/dd, usr.bin/lex,
usr.bin/telnet, usr.bin/tr, usr.bin/what, usr.bin/xargs, libexec/rexecd,
libexec/rshd, contrib/bc, contrib/libio/dbz, contrib/ncurses, gnu/usr.bin/grep,
and I may have missed some ;)

And it's not just FreeBSD - in every ASCII table I've seen, the special
characters' names are in all caps.

G'luck,
Peter

-- 
Thit sentence is not self-referential because "thit" is not a word.

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