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RE: FAQ update: info resources
- To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: RE: FAQ update: info resources
- From: David Starks-Browning <starksb at ebi dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 17:12:25 +0100
- References: <200006061604.RAA26429@alpha1.ebi.ac.uk>
On Tuesday 6 Jun 00, Parker, Ron writes:
> Just one thing, GNU should be in all capitals. It is an acronym for "GNU's
> Not Unix!" You can thank(?) Richard Stallman's bizarre sense of humor.
Thanks for catching this, I should know better.
> One thing I have never been sure of was what the proper capitalization of
> cygwin. I think it is treated like a normal word and placed in all
> lowercase, except obviously at the beginning of a sentence, but can anyone
> clarify this?
It's capitalised (sp?) as a proper noun in the first paragraph of
<http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/>, and I meant to adopt this
usage. But it's lower case in the banner graphic, so who knows?
Cheers,
David