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.

src/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.3

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"	$OpenBSD: getopt.3,v 1.11 2000/01/25 23:28:55 deraadt Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: getopt.3,v 1.12 2000/03/04 22:19:31 aaron Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd April 19, 1994
 .Dt GETOPT 3
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ recognizes an option and argument
 .Dq Fl x Ar argument .
 It does not matter to
 .Fn getopt
-if a following argument has leading white space.
+if a following argument has leading whitespace.
 .Pp
 On return from
 .Fn getopt ,

src/lib/libc/stdlib/strtod.3

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"	$OpenBSD: strtod.3,v 1.5 2000/01/22 12:05:49 aaron Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: strtod.3,v 1.6 2000/03/04 22:19:31 aaron Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd June 29, 1991
 .Dt STRTOD 3
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ a decimal-point character, optionally followed by an exponent.
 An exponent consists of an ``E'' or ``e'', followed by an optional plus
 or minus sign, followed by a sequence of digits.
 .Pp
-Leading white-space characters in the string (as defined by the
+Leading whitespace characters in the string (as defined by the
 .Xr isspace 3
 function) are skipped.
 .Sh RETURN VALUES

src/lib/libc/stdlib/strtol.3

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"	$OpenBSD: strtol.3,v 1.6 1999/09/14 03:59:55 pjanzen Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: strtol.3,v 1.7 2000/03/04 22:19:31 aaron Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd June 25, 1992
 .Dt STRTOL 3
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ The conversion is done according to the given
 which must be a number between 2 and 36 inclusive
 or the special value 0.
 .Pp
-The string may begin with an arbitrary amount of white space
+The string may begin with an arbitrary amount of whitespace
 (as determined by
 .Xr isspace 3 )
 followed by a single optional

src/lib/libc/stdlib/strtoul.3

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"	$OpenBSD: strtoul.3,v 1.5 1999/09/14 03:59:55 pjanzen Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: strtoul.3,v 1.6 2000/03/04 22:19:31 aaron Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd June 25, 1992
 .Dt STRTOUL 3
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ The conversion is done according to the given
 which must be a number between 2 and 36 inclusive
 or the special value 0.
 .Pp
-The string may begin with an arbitrary amount of white space
+The string may begin with an arbitrary amount of whitespace
 (as determined by
 .Xr isspace 3 )
 followed by a single optional

src/lib/libc/string/strsep.3

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: strsep.3,v 1.6 1999/07/04 15:59:50 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: strsep.3,v 1.7 2000/03/04 22:19:32 aaron Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ returns
 .Sh EXAMPLES
 The following uses
 .Fn strsep
-to parse a string, containing tokens delimited by white space, into an
+to parse a string, containing tokens delimited by whitespace, into an
 argument vector:
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
 char **ap, *argv[10], *inputstring;

src/lib/libutil/scsi.3

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: scsi.3,v 1.3 1999/05/16 19:56:05 alex Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: scsi.3,v 1.4 2000/03/04 22:19:32 aaron Exp $
 .\" Copyright (c) 1994 HD Associates (hd@world.std.com)
 .\" All rights reserved.
 .\"
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ The second one bit field is the constant value 0 and the first
 one bit field and the six bit field are taken from the variable
 argument list.
 Multi byte fields are swapped into the SCSI byte order in the
-CDB and white space is ignored.
+CDB and whitespace is ignored.
 .Pp
 When the field is a hex value or the letter v, (e.g.,
 .Fr "1A"