Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!ames.arc.nasa.gov!mike From: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Stupid man pages Message-ID: <47214@ames.arc.nasa.gov> Date: 12 Apr 90 15:24:27 GMT References: <2281@ariel.unm.edu> <1831@pyrltd.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ames.arc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA - Ames Research Center Lines: 17 In article <2281@ariel.unm.edu> schaker@hydra.unm.edu (Schakerianitisadium) writes: >Here are two humorous manual pages that only this audience >would appreciate. ...and even then I'm not sure. Sigh. > In one of the earlier releases of the Sun OS, the man page for "find" said in the bugs section : "the syntax of this command is painful" How true. *** mike smithwick *** "I'm totally awed by what you've done!" (Arthur C. Clarke commenting about Distant Suns) [disclaimer : nope, I don't work for NASA, I take full blame for my ideas]