On Friday 20 February 2004 15:24, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2004, Orna Agmon wrote about "[HAIFUX LECTURE, KEYSIGNING, DINNER] Oron Peled on Advanced Autoconf": > >.. > > * 2. A live demo of real world usage for "autoconfiscation" of > > non-trivial software package. > >.. > > Just a small linguistic nit-pick: The name "Autoconf" comes from the > shortening of "Automatic Configure", not of "Automatic Confiscate". > Therefore, the verb should be "Autoconfigure", not "Autoconfiscate"...
Actually, the "official" verb is autoconfiscate: http://www.faqs.org/docs/jargon/A/autoconfiscate.html I also seen it in one Autoconf manual or other official source. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://shlomif.il.eu.org/ I don't believe in fairies. Oops! A fairy died. I don't believe in fairies. Oops! Another fairy died. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
