Proposed addition to the mail section of the handbook

Tom Rhodes trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Tue Dec 2 16:44:27 UTC 2003


On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:27:45 +0100
Christian Brueffer <chris at unixpages.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:22:17AM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > 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...  :)
> > 
> 
> Of course.  What I meant to say was 'manual page is what we usually use
> for our documentation' :-)

I like manual page as well.  This was probably keramida's fault now
that I think about it... :P

-- 
Tom Rhodes



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