In Unix land we prefer "whitespace" to "white space" or "white-space". At

least, this is the impression I get from looking at a lot of Perl docs.

3 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/share/man/man7/hostname.7 b/share/man/man7/hostname.7
index 5524a09a911..ff009ebf124 100644
--- a/share/man/man7/hostname.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/hostname.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: hostname.7,v 1.4 1999/05/23 14:11:09 aaron Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: hostname.7,v 1.5 2000/03/04 22:19:33 aaron Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: hostname.7,v 1.4 1994/11/30 19:07:14 jtc Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1987, 1990, 1993
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ and if the environment variable
 .Ev HOSTALIASES
 is set to the name of a file,
 that file is searched for any string matching the input hostname.
-The file should consist of lines made up of two white-space separated strings,
+The file should consist of lines made up of two whitespace separated strings,
 the first of which is the hostname alias,
 and the second of which is the complete hostname
 to be substituted for that alias.
diff --git a/share/man/man7/mdoc.7 b/share/man/man7/mdoc.7
index e92f669b891..3a1cb145a47 100644
--- a/share/man/man7/mdoc.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/mdoc.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: mdoc.7,v 1.12 1999/09/02 17:42:27 aaron Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: mdoc.7,v 1.13 2000/03/04 22:19:33 aaron Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -264,8 +264,8 @@ punctuation characters are only recognized as such if they are presented
 one at a time.
 The string
 .Ql "),"
-is not recognized as punctuation and will be output with a leading white
-space and in whatever font the calling macro uses.
+is not recognized as punctuation and will be output with a leading whitespace
+and in whatever font the calling macro uses.
 The
 argument list
 .Ql "] ) ,"
diff --git a/share/man/man7/mdoc.samples.7 b/share/man/man7/mdoc.samples.7
index dca6a3a9a8c..09b47367691 100644
--- a/share/man/man7/mdoc.samples.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/mdoc.samples.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: mdoc.samples.7,v 1.20 2000/01/01 23:43:23 millert Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: mdoc.samples.7,v 1.21 2000/03/04 22:19:33 aaron Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: mdoc.samples.7,v 1.5 1996/04/03 20:17:34 jtc Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993
@@ -759,7 +759,7 @@ The result is:
 .Pp
 The punctuation is not recognized and all is output in the
 literal font. If the punctuation is separated by a leading
-white space:
+whitespace:
 .Pp
 .Dl \&.Li "sptr , ptr ) ,"
 .Pp