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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!vtc.tacom.army.mil!ulowell.uml.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!in2.uu.net!news1.digital.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!nntp-sc.barrnet.net!netapp.com!netapp.com!not-for-mail From: guy@netapp.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish Date: 18 Aug 1995 12:01:30 -0700 Organization: Network Appliance Corporation Lines: 20 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <412o2a$6k7@nova.netapp.com> References: <405hjb$llr@news.jhu.edu> <40qg1j$g2m@westnet.westnet.com> <yekn3d81woz.fsf@grymoire.crd.ge.com> <DDI2wp.936@ftel.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.9.200.13 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.sun.admin:51288 comp.unix.solaris:43622 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:605 Ian G Batten <I.G.Batten@ftel.co.uk> wrote: >The Unisoft V.2 man page for m4 lists: > > -e Operate interactively. Interrupts are ignored and > the output is unbuffered. Using this mode requires a > special state of mind. That was put in there by somebody at AT&T whose sense of humor *hadn't* been surgically removed (i.e., the man page that came with SVR2 from AT&T had that). I thought I'd left that in the SunOS 4.x man page when I put the SVR2 "m4" into "/usr/5bin"; it appears not to be in the SunOS 4.1.3 "m4" man page's SV section, though - perhaps the same person who ripped the item in the subject line out of the SunOS 4.1 "tunefs" man page (thus obliging Larry McVoy to put it back) also ripped it out of the M4 man page. It's not in the SunOS 5.4 man page; I don't know whether somebody at Sun, or somebody at AT&T, ripped it out.