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Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 03:16:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: change "CDROM" to "CD-ROM"

>Number:         38225
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       change "CDROM" to "CD-ROM"
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat May 18 00:20:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:    Sun Feb 20 17:07:26 GMT 2005
>Last-Modified:  Sun Feb 20 17:07:26 GMT 2005
>Originator:     Trevor Johnson
>Release:        N/A
>Organization:
>Environment:
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>Description:

It appears that "CDROM" is a misspelling of "CD-ROM."  These URLs
support this idea (Philips and Sony invented the medium, so I feel
they are authoritative for its name):

 http://sdm.sony.com/art/cdlogos.html
 http://sdm.sony.com/techinfo/bythebook.html
 http://www.licensing.philips.com/information/cd/video/
 http://www.search.philips.com/?a=0&text=cd-rom
 http://www.search.philips.com/?a=0&text=cdrom
 ftp://ftp.ecma.ch/ecma-st/Ecma-130.pdf
 http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=cdrom
 http://www.pctechguide.com/08cd-rom.htm
 http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/CD_ROM.html

Therefore, I have prepared a patch to change "CDROM" to "CD-ROM"
in doc/ and www/ with a few exceptions:

- Walnut Creek CDROM
- CDROM Support BBS
- CDROM environment variable
- NO_CDROM

The patch changes 1346 lines in 286 files.

>How-To-Repeat:

N/A

>Fix:

http://people.freebsd.org/~trevor/doc/cd-rom.diff.bz2

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: doc->freebsd-doc 
Responsible-Changed-By: trevor 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sat May 18 00:23:15 PDT 2002 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
misfiled PR 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=38225 

From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Cc: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
Subject: Re: docs/38225
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 12:27:34 +0200

 Hello,
 
 About that question of "CDROM" or "CD-ROM", at first i had the same
 reaction as yours. However "CDROM" is the choice of the docproj, have a
 look to:
 
 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/x3258.html
 
 which the word list to use, and to that commit log about this problem:
 
 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml?rev=1.72&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
 
 Marc
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: blackend 
State-Changed-When: Tue Jul 16 16:22:21 PDT 2002 
State-Changed-Why:  
"CDROM" is the choice of the docproj, have a look to: 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/x3258.html 
and 
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml?rev=1.72&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=38225 
State-Changed-From-To: closed->open 
State-Changed-By: trevor 
State-Changed-When: Tue Jul 16 16:43:06 PDT 2002 
State-Changed-Why:  
With the patch accompanying this PR, I proposed to change 
doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style/chapter.sgml . 
The fact that the patch has not yet been applied is IMO not a valid 
reason for closing the PR. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=38225 

From: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
To: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: docs/38225: change "CDROM" to "CD-ROM"
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 19:42:20 -0400 (EDT)

 On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
 
 > Synopsis: change "CDROM" to "CD-ROM"
 >
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
 > State-Changed-By: blackend
 > State-Changed-When: Tue Jul 16 16:22:21 PDT 2002
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > "CDROM" is the choice of the docproj, have a look to:
 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/x3258.html
 > and
 > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml?rev=1.72&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
 
 The PR contains abundant evidence that this choice was incorrect, and the
 accompanying patch changes the word list in the style guide.
 
 > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=38225
 -- 
 Trevor Johnson
 

From: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
To: Trevor Johnson <trevor@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>,
	Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: docs/38225: change "CDROM" to "CD-ROM"
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 20:14:22 -0400 (EDT)

 > State-Changed-From-To: closed->open
 > State-Changed-By: trevor
 > State-Changed-When: Tue Jul 16 16:43:06 PDT 2002
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > With the patch accompanying this PR, I proposed to change
 > doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style/chapter.sgml .
 > The fact that the patch has not yet been applied is IMO not a valid
 > reason for closing the PR.
 >
 > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=38225
 
 Before I submitted this PR, I was advised in a private e-mail that I
 should "launch a campaign to change the word-list of the FDP."  If this PR
 is not the proper way to do so, please let me know what the procedure is.
 My correspondent told me that the existence of Walnut Creek CDROM was a
 factor in the choice of "CDROM" over "CD-ROM."  A (probably related)
 factor was that "CDROM" already outnumbered "CD-ROM," so it was easier to
 change to the incorrect spelling.  With the company's unfortunate demise,
 the decision should be reconsidered.
 
 Oftentimes, words are intentionally misspelled (for example "EZ,"
 "Cheez," or "Wip") in order to make a trademark more enforceable.
 Perhaps that happened here.
 -- 
 Trevor Johnson
 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->ceri 
Responsible-Changed-By: blackend 
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Jul 23 03:16:48 PDT 2002 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Ceri will work on it. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=38225 

From: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Chern Lee <chern@FreeBSD.org>,
	<freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org>, Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>,
	Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org>, <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: docs/38225: change "CDROM" to "CD-ROM"
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 09:34:31 -0400 (EDT)

 Nik Clayton wrote:
 
 > FWIW,
 >
 > On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 08:39:37AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
 > > Given that the paper that _defines_ what a CD-ROM looks like uses CD-ROM,
 > > I think that is pretty definitive. :)
 >
 > If pushed, I'm inclined to agree.  However, it's also not anything I'm
 > going to lose sleep over.  If someone's willing to put the effort in to
 > go over the {src,doc} trees and do an intelligent s/CDROM/CD-ROM/ then
 > I'm not going to stop them.  But I do think we have other things that
 > the time could be spent on.
 
 I've prepared a patch against the -CURRENT src/, to accompany the earlier
 one for doc/ and www/.  It would change not just documentation but some
 textual output (if that is considered beyond the scope of such a patch, I
 don't mind scaling it back).  I left intact some instances of "CDROM" in
 the Japanese documentation because I was not sure whether they referred to
 some of the exceptions.  I also left intact the names of all variables,
 macros, and so forth.
 
 According to diffstat, this second patch would make 263 changes in 74
 files (including share/freebsd/dict as requested, loosely speaking, by
 blackend).  It is at
 <URL:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~trevor/doc/38225-src.diff.bz2>.
 -- 
 Trevor Johnson
 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: ceri->freebsd-doc 
Responsible-Changed-By: ceri 
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Jan 23 15:42:18 PST 2003 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Throw this back to the doc team. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=38225 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: simon 
State-Changed-When: Sun Feb 20 17:02:07 GMT 2005 
State-Changed-Why:  
Close PR since I just changed the FDP word list to say CD-ROM, but the 
general stance seems to be that there is no reason to do a sweep to 
update existing documentation to CD-ROM (note, personally I don't care 
either way), which is also shown by the fact that nobody has committed 
this PR in 3 years. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=38225 
>Unformatted:
