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From: mau@beatles.cselt.stet.it (Maurizio Codogno)
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: 21 Aug 1995 09:51:58 +0200
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In article <419bql$o91@sungy.Germany.Sun.COM>,
Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security Engineer <Casper.Dik@Holland.Sun.COM> wrote:
>I always liked:
>
>BUGS
>
>	Behaves oddly on nights with full moon.
>
>
>That's from the catman manual page, also censored in newer editions.

I understand that Sun decided to delete /usr/games because they thought it
does not give a "serious" image of Unix, and they wanted to reach the
business market. But deleting in-jokes in man pages... this seems to me a
little exaggerated.

.mau.