discuss: Naming HOWTOs
Subject:
Re: Naming HOWTOs
From:
Poet/Joshua Drake ####@####.####
Date:
7 Aug 2001 17:33:47 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0108071032310.20780-100000@commandprompt.com>
How about
Software-Modem-HOWTO
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Imran Ghory wrote:
>I'm writing a HOWTO but I'm not sure what I should name it, it's
>about using software modems based around Rockwell/Conexant
>chipsets under linux.
>
>Some background:
>
>Rockwell's chipsets production division broke off into Conexant, so
>the early chipsets are called Rockwell chipsets and some of the
>new ones are called Conexant, but you get some which are
>labelled as both Conexant and Rockwell (The software identifies
>them as Conexant, but the hardware's vendor ID is that of
>Rockwell).
>
>Traditionally the problems been got around by calling them
>"Conexant/Rockwell based modems", but if the title is going to be
>used as a filename then I can't use the slash in the title.
>
>I've thought of some possible titles,
>
>conexant-and-rockwell-modem-HOWTO
>conexant-or-rockwell-modem-HOWTO
>conexant-rockwell-modem-HOWTO
>conexant-modem-HOWTO
>
>But I'm not sure which one would be best, anyone got any
>suggestions or alternatives ?
>
>Imran
>
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