Bug 31640

Summary: Avoiding uppercase program names in manpages
Product: Documentation Reporter: setantae <setantae>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: charnier
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description setantae 2001-10-30 16:00:01 UTC 
In many manpages, there are a number of program names that appear with
uppercased first letters when the program name starts the sentence.

Other manpages treat this situation differently and stick to the lower
case variant.

Since which of these approaches is correct seems to be a religious issue,
the following patch updates the manpages for /bin (with the exception of
ed(1) and pax(1) which require more time than I have available right now)
to skirt around this issue.

Fix: Apply the following patch to /bin (from /usr/src) :
Comment 1 Ceri Davies freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-05-05 12:52:44 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->charnier

charnier is taking care of fixing these.
Comment 2 Tom Rhodes freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-12-16 22:44:41 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

charnier, ru, keramida, ceri, and many others fix this whenever we come 
across it.  For the most part, and to my knowledge it is 90% if not 100% 
complete.