Hello fdclose

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Fri Mar 21 14:19:05 UTC 2014


Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> > We always use [The .Nm foo utility or The .Fn foo function] instead
> > of just .Nm or .Fn at the start of a sentence, but never (or rarely)
> > within a sentence.
> By "we", do you mean the FreeBSD project or your local organization?
> Is there a specific reason the redundant wording, or is it just
> customary?

I mean the FreeBSD project, and the reason is as John stated: all
sentences must start with a capital letter.  I've gotten so used to this
over the past 15 years that I even do it in email and other non-FreeBSD
written material.

DES
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