0001705: Use 'to [the] standard output' consistently

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(0006333) geoffclare (manager) 2023-06-15 10:57	These different phrasings go right back to POSIX.2-1992 which had plenty of uses of both "to standard output" and "to the standard output". It has never been considered to be a problem, and I see no reason to start treating it as one. The counts stated in the description give a misleading picture because they include the word "to". There are also uses of both phrases without "to", so changing only those that have "to" would still leave some inconsistency. There are also uses of both "standard error" and "the standard error"; likewise for standard input. Another complication is that "the standard output" can be part of a longer phrase such as "the standard output stream" or "the standard output file descriptor"; those should really count as uses of "standard output" not "the standard output". Trying to achieve consistency here would be a huge amount of work for almost no gain. Either this bug should be rejected or we should acknowledge that the two phrasings are equivalent by adding definitions in XBD 3 along the lines of: Standard Output, the Standard Output.

(0006351) Don Cragun (manager) 2023-06-26 15:19	There is no ambiguity in the current wording. Making this change would be a huge amount of work for almost no gain (and standard output is just the tip of the iceberg).

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