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From: robinson@dsto.defence.gov.au (Greg Robinson)
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Subject: Re: You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish
Date: 4 Sep 1995 03:26:17 GMT
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This turned up in rec.humor.funny:

In the nroff source for tunefs(8), there is this part:

.\" Take this out and a Unix Demon will dog your steps from now until
.\" the time_t's wrap around.
.sp
You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish.

Which is a comment of course :-)

Greg.

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