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-rw-r--r--manual/arith.texi6
-rw-r--r--manual/creature.texi2
-rw-r--r--manual/filesys.texi2
-rw-r--r--manual/math.texi2
-rw-r--r--manual/memory.texi2
-rw-r--r--manual/resource.texi4
-rw-r--r--manual/syslog.texi2
-rw-r--r--manual/time.texi2
8 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/manual/arith.texi b/manual/arith.texi
index 078885e86f..b1580a06f5 100644
--- a/manual/arith.texi
+++ b/manual/arith.texi
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ This function returns @code{-1} if @var{x} represents negative infinity,
 This function returns a nonzero value if @var{x} is a ``not a number''
 value, and zero otherwise.
 
-@strong{Note:} The @code{isnan} macro defined by @w{ISO C99} overrides
+@strong{NB:} The @code{isnan} macro defined by @w{ISO C99} overrides
 the BSD function.  This is normally not a problem, because the two
 routines behave identically.  However, if you really need to get the BSD
 function for some reason, you can write
@@ -968,7 +968,7 @@ decide whether traps will occur for each of the exceptions, by setting
 bits in the @dfn{control word}.  In C, traps result in the program
 receiving the @code{SIGFPE} signal; see @ref{Signal Handling}.
 
-@strong{Note:} @w{IEEE 754} says that trap handlers are given details of
+@strong{NB:} @w{IEEE 754} says that trap handlers are given details of
 the exceptional situation, and can set the result value.  C signals do
 not provide any mechanism to pass this information back and forth.
 Trapping exceptions in C is therefore not very useful.
@@ -1721,7 +1721,7 @@ Not all machines provide hardware support for these operations.  On
 machines that don't, the macros can be very slow.  Therefore, you should
 not use these functions when NaN is not a concern.
 
-@strong{Note:} There are no macros @code{isequal} or @code{isunequal}.
+@strong{NB:} There are no macros @code{isequal} or @code{isunequal}.
 They are unnecessary, because the @code{==} and @code{!=} operators do
 @emph{not} throw an exception if one or both of the operands are NaN.
 
diff --git a/manual/creature.texi b/manual/creature.texi
index c825edd5ae..96501568a0 100644
--- a/manual/creature.texi
+++ b/manual/creature.texi
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ sequence of definitions:
 
 Note that if you do this, you must link your program with the BSD
 compatibility library by passing the @samp{-lbsd-compat} option to the
-compiler or linker.  @strong{Note:} If you forget to do this, you may
+compiler or linker.  @strong{NB:} If you forget to do this, you may
 get very strange errors at run time.
 @end defvr
 
diff --git a/manual/filesys.texi b/manual/filesys.texi
index 9719d41946..a486f7de34 100644
--- a/manual/filesys.texi
+++ b/manual/filesys.texi
@@ -3239,7 +3239,7 @@ are replaced with six characters which make the whole string a unique
 file name.  Usually the template string is something like
 @samp{/tmp/@var{prefix}XXXXXX}, and each program uses a unique @var{prefix}.
 
-@strong{Note:} Because @code{mktemp} and @code{mkstemp} modify the
+@strong{NB:} Because @code{mktemp} and @code{mkstemp} modify the
 template string, you @emph{must not} pass string constants to them.
 String constants are normally in read-only storage, so your program
 would crash when @code{mktemp} or @code{mkstemp} tried to modify the
diff --git a/manual/math.texi b/manual/math.texi
index 7ebcddee3f..50e087c487 100644
--- a/manual/math.texi
+++ b/manual/math.texi
@@ -1366,7 +1366,7 @@ The prototypes for these functions are in @file{stdlib.h}.
 This function returns the next pseudo-random number in the sequence.
 The value returned ranges from @code{0} to @code{RAND_MAX}.
 
-@strong{Note:} Temporarily this function was defined to return a
+@strong{NB:} Temporarily this function was defined to return a
 @code{int32_t} value to indicate that the return value always contains
 32 bits even if @code{long int} is wider.  The standard demands it
 differently.  Users must always be aware of the 32-bit limitation,
diff --git a/manual/memory.texi b/manual/memory.texi
index cbe147b712..43afc7bf95 100644
--- a/manual/memory.texi
+++ b/manual/memory.texi
@@ -2326,7 +2326,7 @@ additional block on each iteration.  This is impossible with
 variable-sized arrays.
 @end itemize
 
-@strong{Note:} If you mix use of @code{alloca} and variable-sized arrays
+@strong{NB:} If you mix use of @code{alloca} and variable-sized arrays
 within one function, exiting a scope in which a variable-sized array was
 declared frees all blocks allocated with @code{alloca} during the
 execution of that scope.
diff --git a/manual/resource.texi b/manual/resource.texi
index aabd28976a..4a814c9e4a 100644
--- a/manual/resource.texi
+++ b/manual/resource.texi
@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ ready to execute instructions right now.  When a process blocks to wait
 for something like I/O, its absolute priority is irrelevant.
 
 @cindex runnable process
-@strong{Note:}  The term ``runnable'' is a synonym for ``ready to run.''
+@strong{NB:}  The term ``runnable'' is a synonym for ``ready to run.''
 
 When two processes are running or ready to run and both have the same
 absolute priority, it's more interesting.  In that case, who gets the
@@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ privileged process constantly monitors the process' CPU usage and raises
 its absolute priority when the process isn't getting its entitled share
 and lowers it when the process is exceeding it.
 
-@strong{Note:}  The absolute priority is sometimes called the ``static
+@strong{NB:}  The absolute priority is sometimes called the ``static
 priority.''  We don't use that term in this manual because it misses the
 most important feature of the absolute priority:  its absoluteness.
 
diff --git a/manual/syslog.texi b/manual/syslog.texi
index 02c8e28a7a..e16b5d2475 100644
--- a/manual/syslog.texi
+++ b/manual/syslog.texi
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ Locally defined
 
 Results are undefined if the facility code is anything else.
 
-@strong{note:} @code{syslog} recognizes one other facility code: that of
+@strong{NB:} @code{syslog} recognizes one other facility code: that of
 the kernel.  But you can't specify that facility code with these
 functions.  If you try, it looks the same to @code{syslog} as if you are
 requesting the default facility.  But you wouldn't want to anyway,
diff --git a/manual/time.texi b/manual/time.texi
index 64763a2d21..393bccd99f 100644
--- a/manual/time.texi
+++ b/manual/time.texi
@@ -1652,7 +1652,7 @@ The seconds as a decimal number (range @code{0} through @code{60}).
 
 Leading zeroes are permitted but not required.
 
-@strong{Note:} The Unix specification says the upper bound on this value
+@strong{NB:} The Unix specification says the upper bound on this value
 is @code{61}, a result of a decision to allow double leap seconds.  You
 will not see the value @code{61} because no minute has more than one
 leap second, but the myth persists.