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Niclas Zeising
lothrandil at n00b.apagnu.se
Sun Nov 12 11:22:56 UTC 2006
Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 11:57:46AM +0100, Niclas Zeising wrote:
>> The difference between ssh and <application>ssh</application> is that
>> ssh can be both an application and a protocol, and we have to
>> differentiate that. Apart from that, I find staring a sentence with a
>> non-capitalized letter looks weird. Maybe we should use the
>> all-capitalized version, at least when talking about the protocol.
>
> SSH is the protocol, and ssh is the application/program (so
> <application></application> or <command></command> according to the
> situation). We also have to start a sentence with a capitalized letter,
> so we used to do the same thing as in the manual page, i.e, writing "The
> blahblah utility/tool/program/whatever".
>
Okay. I'll do an overhaul of the security chapter and see if I can make
some sort of progress regarding consistency between, SSH, ssh and so on,
using SSH for the protocol, and <application>ssh</application> or
<command>ssh</command> depending on the situation.
Thanks for the clarification!
Regards!
//Niclas
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