cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive article.sgml

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at freebsd.org
Tue Aug 24 11:22:19 PDT 2004


On 2004-08-24 20:14, "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 2004.08.24 18:00:51 +0000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > keramida    2004-08-24 18:00:51 UTC
> >
> >   FreeBSD doc repository
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive article.sgml
> >   Log:
> >   Use &ms-dos; for referring to MS-DOS to match the style of &windows; in
> >   the same sentence.
>
> When I went through the documentation I left all instances of DOS
> alone and only changed MS-DOS to &ms-dos;, since DOS is not a
> trademark of Microsoft, but MS-DOS is.

Ah, I see now.

> It seems rather random if DOS or MS-DOS were used, though in the
> context of the FreeBSD documentation there probably isn't really a
> difference...

Hmm.  If you think it's really not necessary to change instances of DOS
to &ms-dos; I'll leave the rest that I come across unchanged.  Do you
also want me to back this one out?  I don't have a strong preference for
DOS or &ms-dos; either.



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