Proposed addition to the mail section of the handbook

Tom Rhodes trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Tue Dec 2 16:22:26 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 10:00:21 +0100
Josef El-Rayes <j.el-rayes at daemon.li> wrote:

> Christian Brueffer <chris at unixpages.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:18:25PM +0100, Josef El-Rayes wrote:
> 
> > > line 72: it is "manpage" not "man page".
> 
> > Actually it is 'manual page'.
> 
> i prefer too, the expression 'manual page', but as
> bill used the short form, i just wanted to point out
> that o'reilly writes it 'manpage' and not 'man page'.
> 
> (http://www.oreilly.com/oreilly/author/stylesheet.html#M).

It always depends on who you talk to too.  Some people say man
page, some use manual page, some use manpage.  Trust me, this
is a bikeshed you don't want to step into...  :)

-- 
Tom Rhodes



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