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authorG. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>2018-11-11 17:29:25 -0500
committerG. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>2018-11-11 17:29:25 -0500
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downloadgroff-git-2d7749c311ab5ace131c61ece776131e99f242c8.tar.gz
Stop spelling "Unix" as "UNIX".
Per AT&T Bell Labs veterans Doug McIlroy and Meg McRoberts, spelling "Unix" in full caps was a contrivance insisted upon by AT&T lawyers, and not a practice used in the Unix manuals themselves or the Bell Labs Technical Journal. See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2015-01/msg00026.html and https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2015-01/msg00029.html for support. There are instances I did _not_ change; they may require further review. ChangeLog.* People don't often look for model usage here. NEWS One reference relevant to mdoc; see below. doc/meintro.me doc/meintro_fr.me These documents also give the small caps treatment to groff, troff, and nroff, suggesting a separate changeset. src/preproc/pic/pic.ypp Contains a comment referring to "Compaq Tru64 UNIX"; not worth the candle IMO. tmac/s.tmac: {ms macro package} Leaving UX macro definition alone until/unless it can be established that this doesn't change the rendering of historical documents in an objectionable way. tmac/doc-syms-u: tmac/doc-old.tmac-u: tmac/doc-common-u: tmac/groff_mdoc.7.man: {mdoc macro package} Similar; mdoc defines many strings that spit out "UNIX" (albeit not with a font size change). * MORE.STUFF: * NEWS: * README.MinGW: * contrib/groffer/README: * contrib/pdfmark/pdfmark.ms: * contrib/pdfmark/pdfroff.1.man: * doc/groff.texi: * doc/webpage.ms: * m4/groff.m4: * man/groff_diff.7.man: * man/groff_tmac.5.man: * man/roff.7.man: * src/preproc/html/pre-html.cpp: * src/roff/troff/troff.1.man: Change "UNIX" to "Unix", discarding markup as necessary. Signed-off-by: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
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@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
In the case of building with MinGW, the default behaviour of configure is
not appropriate for the following reasons.
- o The MSYS environment creates a virtual UNIX-like file system, with its
+ o The MSYS environment creates a virtual Unix-like file system, with its
root mapped to the actual MS-Windows directory where MSYS itself is
installed; /usr is also mapped to this MSYS installation directory.
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
o Knowledge of the MSYS virtual file system is not imparted to groff; it
expects the compiled-in path to its components to be a fully qualified
- MS-Windows path name (although UNIX-style slashes are permitted, and
+ MS-Windows path name (although Unix-style slashes are permitted, and
preferred to the MS-Windows style backslashes, to demarcate the directory
hierarchy). Thus, when configuring groff, if
--prefix=<win32-install-path> is not correctly specified, then the
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@
./configure --prefix=D:/MSYS/1.0/local ...
Note that the backslash characters, which appear in the native MS-Windows
- form of the path name, are replaced by UNIX-style slashes in the argument to
+ form of the path name, are replaced by Unix-style slashes in the argument to
configure; this is the preferred syntax.
Also note that the MS-Windows device designator (D: in this instance) is
@@ -238,9 +238,9 @@
-------------------------
The runtime environment, provided to groff by MSYS, is essentially the same
- as would be provided under a UNIX or GNU/Linux operating system; thus, any
+ as would be provided under a Unix or GNU/Linux operating system; thus, any
environment variables which may be used to customize the groff runtime
- environment have similar effects under MSYS, as they would in UNIX or
+ environment have similar effects under MSYS, as they would in Unix or
GNU/Linux, with the exception that any variable specifying a path should
adopt the same syntax as a native MS-Windows PATH specification.
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@
creating temporary files. When these conditions arise, groff fails with a
`permission denied' error, as soon as it tries to create any temporary file.
- To specify the location for creating temporary files, the standard UNIX or
+ To specify the location for creating temporary files, the standard Unix or
GNU/Linux implementation of groff provides the GROFF_TMPDIR or TMPDIR
environment variables, whereas MS-Windows applications generally use TMP or
TEMP; furthermore, the MS-Windows implementations of Ghostscript apparently
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@
----------------
There are two known issues, observed when running groff in the MinGW/MSYS
- environment, which would not affect groff in its native UNIX environment:
+ environment, which would not affect groff in its native Unix environment:
o Running groff with the working directory set to a subdirectory of a
network share, where the user does not have write permission in the root
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@
cat | groff ...
in which case <Ctrl-D> terminates the standard input stream, in just the
- same way it does on a UNIX system; the cat executable provided with MSYS
+ same way it does on a Unix system; the cat executable provided with MSYS
does seem to trap the end-of-file condition, and properly signals groff
that the input stream has terminated.