From owner-freebsd-doc Sat May 25 14:50: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CBCF37B401 for ; Sat, 25 May 2002 14:50:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4PLo4061009; Sat, 25 May 2002 14:50:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 14:50:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200205252150.g4PLo4061009@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Giorgos Keramidas Subject: Re: docs/38540: sysinstall application name should be Sysinstall with right tags in all the Handbook Reply-To: Giorgos Keramidas Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/38540; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Marc Fonvieille Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/38540: sysinstall application name should be Sysinstall with right tags in all the Handbook Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 00:49:31 +0300 On 2002-05-25 22:39, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 11:10:18PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > I took the caps as a convention cause when we talk about the command > > > we use /stand/sysinstall and not sysinstall, same for > > > FDisk etc... > > > > I am very certain that ``FDisk'' or ``fDisk'' or whatever else one can > > come up with is the wrong way to refer to &man.fdisk.8;. > > Of course. > > In reading more of these *things*, i think it comes from application > like "Partition Magic" for which "P" and "M" are correct... This is my personal opinion, but I'd like the names of the &man.x.y; entities to be used to commonly refer to the applications when possible. This way we don't need to worry about capitalization, spelling, or other minor issues :) - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message