[Info-vax] Radical command line suggestion

[David Froble]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> 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
> 
> ...or: $ EXIT 2928
> 
> Hopefully, its humor is not lost in Hungarian translation.
> 

Real humor was engraving messages about "stealing the best" on CPU 
chips, in Russian ....