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From: kanze@gabi-soft.fr (J. Kanze)
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
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Date: 25 Aug 1995 13:11:54 +0200
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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$7ar@beatles.cselt.stet.it>
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Maurizio Codogno (mau@beatles.cselt.stet.it) wrote:
|> In article <419bql$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.
Do the make the /usr/games available at an ftp site? And if not, why
not?
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James Kanze (+33) 88 14 49 00 email: kanze@gabi-soft.fr
GABI Software, Sarl., 8 rue des Francs Bourgeois, 67000 Strasbourg, France
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