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Re: how to find out methods for tramp?


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: how to find out methods for tramp?
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 13:22:25 +0200
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"Robert J. Chassell" <address@hidden> writes:

|>    I think the use of a capital together with the particular grammatical
|>    construct used makes it clear that this use of the word `windows'
|>    refers to a proper name rather than to the general concept of a window.
|>    I'm surprised that anybody would be confused.
|> 
|> I get confused because many of the people I know refer to `X Windows'
|> and shorten that phrase to `Windows'.

Actually, if you ask the X Consortium then `X Windows' is not a proper
name for the `X Window System' (see X(1)).

Andreas.

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