Bug 18467
| Summary: | Simple typo in man page | ||||||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | ak03 <ak03> | ||||
| Component: | Books & Articles | Assignee: | freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc> | ||||
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||||||
| Priority: | Normal | ||||||
| Version: | Latest | ||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
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Description
ak03
2000-05-09 17:10:00 UTC
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 12:05:39PM -0400, ak03@gte.com wrote: > >Number: 18467 > >Category: docs > >Synopsis: Simple typo in man page > >Description: > > dispatching spelled as despatching in man page > > >How-To-Repeat: > > man kobj From "dict despatch": From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Despatch \De*spatch"\, n. & v. Same as {Dispatch}. Dispatch \Dis*patch"\, n. [Cf. OF. despeche, F. d['e]p[^e]che. See {Dispatch}, v. t.] [Written also {despatch}.] Looks like this spelling is fine. -Mike -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org or mpp@mppsystems.com Yes, but is it fine to use both spellings on the same page? I still believe that 'despatch' should be changed to dispatch to be consistent with the rest of the page. On 09-May-00 Mike Pritchard wrote: > On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 12:05:39PM -0400, ak03@gte.com wrote: >> >Number: 18467 >> >Category: docs >> >Synopsis: Simple typo in man page >> >Description: >> >> dispatching spelled as despatching in man page >> >> >How-To-Repeat: >> >> man kobj > >>From "dict despatch": > >>From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: > > Despatch \De*spatch"\, n. & v. > Same as {Dispatch}. > > Dispatch \Dis*patch"\, n. [Cf. OF. despeche, F. d['e]p[^e]che. > See {Dispatch}, v. t.] [Written also {despatch}.] > > > Looks like this spelling is fine. > > -Mike > -- > Mike Pritchard > mpp@FreeBSD.org or mpp@mppsystems.com ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Alexander N. Kabaev <ak03@gte.com> Date: 09-May-00 Time: 14:39:17 ---------------------------------- On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 02:43:14PM -0400, Alexander N. Kabaev wrote: > Yes, but is it fine to use both spellings on the same page? I still believe > that 'despatch' should be changed to dispatch to be consistent with the rest > of the page. It should be consistent (I didn't look to see if it was using both spellings). I'll go fix it right now. Thanks. -Mike -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org or mpp@mppsystems.com State Changed From-To: open->closed Supplied patch applied. Thanks! |
