[Info-vax] Radical command line suggestion
Bill Gunshannon
bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu
Mon Mar 23 08:07:14 EDT 2015
In article <memrl0$vgs$1 at pechter.eternal-september.org>,
pechter at S20.pechter.dyndns.org (William Pechter) writes:
> In article <memmr7$cbu$1 at panix2.panix.com>,
> Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
>>Help entries were in great part intended as tutorials, man pages were intended
>>as references.
>>
>>
>>If you do 'man tunefs' and the first line is 'You can tune a filesystem but
>>you can't tuna fish' you know a little more about the people who developed
>>the OS...
>>--
>>"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
>
>
> And when the BSD FFS migrated to System V Rel 4 that line was removed from the
> manual pages.
>
> I think FreeBSD kept it down at the bottom as a comment.
>
Like it or not, humor has always been a part of academic IT endeavours.
Find an old copy of the UCSD-Pascal documentation and look up "Recursion"
in the Glossary.
bill
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