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-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex10
-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew21.tex4
-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex2
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex
index 473804c..360d7dc 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex
@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ def f(*args, **kw):
The \keyword{print} statement can now have its output directed to a
file-like object by following the \keyword{print} with
-\verb|>> file|, similar to the redirection operator in Unix shells.
+\verb|>> file|, similar to the redirection operator in \UNIX{} shells.
Previously you'd either have to use the \method{write()} method of the
file-like object, which lacks the convenience and simplicity of
\keyword{print}, or you could assign a new value to
@@ -894,7 +894,7 @@ to be added, and a third argument for the value to be assigned to the
name. This third argument is, respectively, a Python object, a C
long, or a C string.
-A wrapper API was added for Unix-style signal handlers.
+A wrapper API was added for \UNIX-style signal handlers.
\function{PyOS_getsig()} gets a signal handler and
\function{PyOS_setsig()} will set a new handler.
@@ -905,7 +905,7 @@ Before Python 2.0, installing modules was a tedious affair -- there
was no way to figure out automatically where Python is installed, or
what compiler options to use for extension modules. Software authors
had to go through an arduous ritual of editing Makefiles and
-configuration files, which only really work on Unix and leave Windows
+configuration files, which only really work on \UNIX{} and leave Windows
and MacOS unsupported. Python users faced wildly differing
installation instructions which varied between different extension
packages, which made administering a Python installation something of
@@ -1222,7 +1222,7 @@ device on Linux, a twin to the existing \module{sunaudiodev} module.
(Contributed by Peter Bosch, with fixes by Jeremy Hylton.)
\item{\module{mmap}:} An interface to memory-mapped files on both
-Windows and Unix. A file's contents can be mapped directly into
+Windows and \UNIX. A file's contents can be mapped directly into
memory, at which point it behaves like a mutable string, so its
contents can be read and modified. They can even be passed to
functions that expect ordinary strings, such as the \module{re}
@@ -1262,7 +1262,7 @@ distribution, and enhanced to support Unicode.
\item{\module{zipfile}:} A module for reading and writing ZIP-format
archives. These are archives produced by \program{PKZIP} on
-DOS/Windows or \program{zip} on Unix, not to be confused with
+DOS/Windows or \program{zip} on \UNIX, not to be confused with
\program{gzip}-format files (which are supported by the \module{gzip}
module)
(Contributed by James C. Ahlstrom.)
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew21.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew21.tex
index f3d0245..67cbbe4 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew21.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew21.tex
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ Rossum.}
When compiling Python, the user had to go in and edit the
\file{Modules/Setup} file in order to enable various additional
modules; the default set is relatively small and limited to modules
-that compile on most Unix platforms. This means that on Unix
+that compile on most \UNIX{} platforms. This means that on \Unix{}
platforms with many more features, most notably Linux, Python
installations often don't contain all useful modules they could.
@@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ PyUnit.
\item The \module{difflib} module contains a class,
\class{SequenceMatcher}, which compares two sequences and computes the
changes required to transform one sequence into the other. For
-example, this module can be used to write a tool similar to the Unix
+example, this module can be used to write a tool similar to the \UNIX{}
\program{diff} program, and in fact the sample program
\file{Tools/scripts/ndiff.py} demonstrates how to write such a script.
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
index 0af4b46..72fd306 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
@@ -1979,7 +1979,7 @@ documentation}{../lib/module-datetime.html}.
The \module{getopt} module provides simple parsing of command-line
arguments. The new \module{optparse} module (originally named Optik)
-provides more elaborate command-line parsing that follows the Unix
+provides more elaborate command-line parsing that follows the \UNIX{}
conventions, automatically creates the output for \longprogramopt{help},
and can perform different actions for different options.