From: Pekka Pietikainen <pp@evil.netppl.fi>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: spelling of disc (disk) in /devfs
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 11:57:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010202115712.A31607@netppl.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6lah7t4f685qo3igk679ocdo2obfhd9lvg@4ax.com> <20010201193255.A32191@thune.yy.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010201193255.A32191@thune.yy.com>
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 07:32:55PM -0800, Mike Castle wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 12:19:56AM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote:
> > I now find myself confused with the new approach.
>
> try "man -k disc" and compare the output with "man -k disk"
>
> Since nearly all of the utilities refer to "disk" rather than "disc," it
> would make more since to be consistent with that.
<sarcasm>
What we really need is the ability to
echo en_US/en_GB > /proc/sys/kernel/locale so you can choose
the one you want.
</sarcasm>
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Pekka Pietikainen
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-01 0:19 spelling of disc (disk) in /devfs Alan Chandler
2001-02-01 0:35 ` List User
2001-02-01 18:27 ` idalton
2001-02-01 19:07 ` alex
2001-02-01 19:08 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-02-01 23:17 ` Harald Arnesen
2001-02-01 9:42 ` Jeremy M. Dolan
2001-01-31 23:00 ` Michael B. Trausch
2001-02-01 10:28 ` Peter Samuelson
2001-02-01 10:58 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-01 17:21 ` Peter Samuelson
2001-02-08 23:31 ` Thomas Dodd
2001-02-02 3:32 ` Mike Castle
2001-02-02 9:57 ` Pekka Pietikainen [this message]
2001-02-02 14:07 ` mirabilos
2001-02-02 15:47 ` David Woodhouse
2001-02-10 0:41 ` Dr. Kelsey Hudson
2001-02-10 23:17 ` Tony Hoyle
2001-02-10 23:51 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-02-11 0:22 ` Rik van Riel
2001-02-11 3:56 ` John Cavan
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2001-02-01 23:04 Wayne.Brown
2001-02-01 0:32 ` Michael B. Trausch
2001-02-01 23:12 ` Mike Harrold
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[not found] ` <fa.i0lgugv.dhmm08@ifi.uio.no>
2001-02-02 12:49 ` Tor Arntsen
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