FAQ update: info resources
Chris Faylor
cgf@cygnus.com
Tue Jun 6 09:28:00 GMT 2000
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 05:12:25PM +0100, David Starks-Browning wrote:
>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?
I believe that it is supposed to be "Cygwin" but I often slip and use "cygwin".
We should probably change the web page.
It's definitely not "CygWin" although many CygNus employees don't seem to
know this.
cgf
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