2001-02-02 09:57:44

by Pekka Pietikainen

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Subject: Re: spelling of disc (disk) in /devfs

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


2001-02-02 15:48:03

by David Woodhouse

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Subject: Re: spelling of disc (disk) in /devfs


[email protected] said:
> <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>

Heh. But you don't need the explicit <sarcasm> tags in the en_GB version.

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dwmw2