[Info-vax] Radical command line suggestion

Bill Gunshannon bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu
Mon Mar 23 09:21:26 EDT 2015


In article <j7f5ub-uq4.ln1 at ubuntu.mike-r.com>,
	Henry Crun <mike at rechtman.com> writes:
> On 23/03/15 14:07, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> 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
>>
> 
>   Try : 
> 
>      $ exit 13492
 
Aren't there a couple of them?  Something about eels and all my something
being theirs.  :-)

bill 

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