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Acronyms
Define acronyms at first usage, except for widely recognized acronyms (see
Table B-2). At first usage, give the full definition, followed by the acronym in
parentheses, for example:
Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
Do not use an apostrophe ( ’ ) to form the plural of an acronym. The plural of CPU
is CPUs.
uppercase upper-case, upper case
Users’ Group User’s Group, Users Group
VxWorks VxWORKS, VXWORKS, vxWorks
Web web
Web site website
Wind River WindRiver
workaround (n.) work-around
write-through, write-back writethrough, writeback
Ta b le B -1 Spelling Conventions (cont’d)
Use... Not...
Ta b le B -2 Common Acronyms
Acronym Definition
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ANSI American National Standards Institute
CPU Central Processing Unit
EOF End-Of-File
fd file descriptor
FTP File Transfer Protocol
IP Internal Protocol
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