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Date:      Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:22:17 -0500
From:      Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
To:        j.el-rayes@daemon.li
Cc:        FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Proposed addition to the mail section of the handbook
Message-ID:  <20031202112217.23a48871.trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031202090021.GA269@jenny.daemon.li>
References:  <3FCBB04F.7070204@potentialtech.com> <20031201221825.GB10158@jenny.daemon.li> <20031202053708.GC71732@unixpages.org> <20031202090021.GA269@jenny.daemon.li>

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On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 10:00:21 +0100
Josef El-Rayes <j.el-rayes@daemon.li> wrote:

> Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:18:25PM +0100, Josef El-Rayes wrote:
> 
> > > line 72: it is "manpage" not "man page".
> 
> > Actually it is 'manual page'.
> 
> i prefer too, the expression 'manual page', but as
> bill used the short form, i just wanted to point out
> that o'reilly writes it 'manpage' and not 'man page'.
> 
> (http://www.oreilly.com/oreilly/author/stylesheet.html#M).

It always depends on who you talk to too.  Some people say man
page, some use manual page, some use manpage.  Trust me, this
is a bikeshed you don't want to step into...  :)

-- 
Tom Rhodes



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