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authorSteve Holme <steve_holme@hotmail.com>2014-12-26 20:45:21 +0000
committerSteve Holme <steve_holme@hotmail.com>2014-12-26 21:42:44 +0000
commit1abe65d928440b3b23d25746b966dd4169c358b9 (patch)
treea486ff20aee5dda2a65401d4e6da76852fedf354 /docs/curl.1
parentb7f740f2fc6c9b5e96ccbc013aeaae4093a9f1ed (diff)
code/docs: Use Unix rather than UNIX to avoid use of the trademark
Use Unix when generically writing about Unix based systems as UNIX is the trademark and should only be used in a particular product's name.
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diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index 1f5389a6b..0b9971cd2 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -813,12 +813,12 @@ the following places in this order:
1) curl tries to find the "home dir": It first checks for the CURL_HOME and
then the HOME environment variables. Failing that, it uses getpwuid() on
-UNIX-like systems (which returns the home dir given the current user in your
+Unix-like systems (which returns the home dir given the current user in your
system). On Windows, it then checks for the APPDATA variable, or as a last
resort the '%USERPROFILE%\\Application Data'.
2) On windows, if there is no _curlrc file in the home dir, it checks for one
-in the same dir the curl executable is placed. On UNIX-like systems, it will
+in the same dir the curl executable is placed. On Unix-like systems, it will
simply try to load .curlrc from the determined home dir.
.nf
@@ -1026,7 +1026,7 @@ in Metalink file, hash check will fail.
.IP "-n, --netrc"
Makes curl scan the \fI.netrc\fP (\fI_netrc\fP on Windows) file in the user's
home directory for login name and password. This is typically used for FTP on
-UNIX. If used with HTTP, curl will enable user authentication. See
+Unix. If used with HTTP, curl will enable user authentication. See
.BR netrc(4)
or
.BR ftp(1)
@@ -1663,7 +1663,7 @@ If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
Prepends a time stamp to each trace or verbose line that curl displays.
(Added in 7.14.0)
.IP "--unix-socket <path>"
-(HTTP) Connect through this UNIX domain socket, instead of using the
+(HTTP) Connect through this Unix domain socket, instead of using the
network. (Added in 7.40.0)
.IP "-u, --user <user:password>"
Specify the user name and password to use for server authentication. Overrides