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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 17:12:25 +0100
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From: David Starks-Browning <starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: RE: FAQ update: info resources
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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

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