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[bug #61104] [PATCH] .At 32v should say "[Version 7] AT&T UNIX/32V", not


From: Ingo Schwarze
Subject: [bug #61104] [PATCH] .At 32v should say "[Version 7] AT&T UNIX/32V", not "Version 32V AT&T UNIX"
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2021 16:44:58 -0400 (EDT)
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; OpenBSD amd64; rv:88.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/88.0

Update of bug #61104 (project groff):

                Severity:              3 - Normal => 2 - Minor              
              Item Group:     Incorrect behaviour => Build/Installation     
                  Status:                    None => Fixed                  
             Assigned to:                    None => schwarze               
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #4:

I think Nab was right and i was wrong; the font change strings only do the
traditional .Tn-style size reduction for all caps proper names like AT&T and
UNIX, and that is not needed for the architecture name 32V.  So i pushed the
original version of the patch, not my modified version.

Regarding "UNIX" versus "Unix", i agree that using "Unix" is better when using
it as a generic English word, for example in an expression like "Unix-like
operating systems".  But here, we are citing the names of commercial products
of AT&T, so we should use their official spelling, and that always used all
caps for UNIX as far as i know.  At least the trademark was and is "UNIX", not
"Unix".  Besides, all the other output strings print "UNIX", so this one
should not diverge.

Commited as 21d30728.

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