docs/77535: [PATCH] s/CD-ROM/CDROM/g in ports chapter of the handbook

Marc Fonvieille blackend at FreeBSD.org
Tue Feb 15 07:24:48 UTC 2005


On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:12:43AM +0800, David Adam wrote:
> Hi Jesus,
> 
> Seeing this patch triggered my memory - the issue has been brought up
> before. I think we need to examine docs/38225
> (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=38225) first.
> 
> My personal preference is with O'Reilly Publishing's recommendation of
> CD-ROM - http://www.oreilly.com/oreilly/author/stylesheet.html (see the
> word list at the bottom of the page).
> 
> docs/38225 is almost three years old and hasn't been touched for over two
> years. Perhaps the doc committers (ceri?) can let us know?
>

Well, this is a "sensitive" problem that has been massively discussed on
-doc in past; for historic reason CDROM has been used in FreeBSD docs
(see Walnuts Creek CDs set...).
For consistency, it will be a huge work to change every
instance of the word in the doc/ tree, and I'm not sure it'll worth the
pain, the time, the bits used, etc.

Marc



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