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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.dfn.de!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!taurus.fccc.edu!levav From: levav@yulara.fccc.edu (Erez Levav) 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: 28 Aug 1995 18:16:42 GMT Organization: Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA Lines: 31 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <41t16a$132@taurus.fccc.edu> References: <405hjb$llr@news.jhu.edu> <yekn3d81woz.fsf@grymoire.crd.ge.com> <x0n3d4d0yf.fsf@gemini.ee.ryerson.ca> <419bql$o91@sungy.Germany.Sun.COM> <419duu$7ar@beatles.cselt.stet.it> Reply-To: levav@yulara.rm.fccc.edu (Erez Levav) NNTP-Posting-Host: yulara.fccc.edu X-Newsreader: mxrn 6.18-24 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.sun.admin:51686 comp.unix.solaris:44291 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:667 In article <419duu$7ar>, mau@beatles.cselt.stet.it (Maurizio Codogno) writes: >In article <419bql$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. I thought the "moon thing" was in the ls man page. Anyway, they also used to have in one of the 1/4" tape man's something like: "Mathematicians have proven that there are 8 ways to insert the catridge into the slot, however only one of them is useful..." > >.mau. > -- Erez Levav Fox Chase Cancer Center E_Levav@fccc.edu 7701 Burholme Avenue (215) 728-3160 Philadelphia, PA 19111 ATT: 0-700-2xpress 0-700-2101010 (FAX)