cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security chapter.sgml

Marc Fonvieille blackend at freebsd.org
Sun Nov 12 11:14:49 UTC 2006


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".

-- 
Marc


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