Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:59:04 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl> To: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@zer0.org> Cc: Sean Kelly <kelly@ad1440.net>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: $DIR/$DIR.sgml -> $DIR/index.sgml Message-ID: <20000324105904.D48913@lucifer.bart.nl> In-Reply-To: <20000321151327.C27767@azazel.zer0.org>; from gsutter@zer0.org on Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 03:13:27PM -0800 References: <20000321113058.B26424@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <016d01bf935f$820b7b70$24d39580@jpl.nasa.gov> <20000321151327.C27767@azazel.zer0.org>
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-On [20000322 00:40], Gregory Sutter (gsutter@zer0.org) wrote: >On 2000-03-21 10:01 -0800, Sean Kelly <kelly@ad1440.net> wrote: >> > 1. From now on, we always use $DIR/index.sgml >> >> Hear, hear! (Or is that, here, here?) > >You've got it right the first time. Searching for a distionary >entry didn't yield any exact results, but one entry noted that >it was an idiomatic expression intended to convey agreement. [history lesson] IIRC it was due in the middle ages when herauts called `hear, hear' on the townsquare to alert the inhabitants of the new rules/news/etc. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Network- and systemadministrator <asmodai@bart.nl> VIA NET.WORKS The Netherlands BSD: Technical excellence at its best http://www.bart.nl Man is the measure of all things... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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