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From: diamant@cwruecmp.UUCP (John Diamant)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: sleep (humorous documentation)
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Date: Sun, 21-Jul-85 01:25:29 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 21 01:25:29 1985
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In article <11276@watnot.UUCP> cagordon@watnot.UUCP (Chris Gordon) writes:
>
>In the manual for sleep, it states:
>
>SLEEP(1)         Waterloo UNIX Programmer's Manual       SLEEP(1)
>
>BUGS (You call this a bug?!)
>     Time must be less than 2,147,483,647 seconds.
>
>This calculates to approximately 68 years!!!! ...

If you think the sleep command has a humorous man page, take a look
at an excerpt from the man page for reboot:


REBOOT(8)           UNIX Programmer's Manual            REBOOT(8)
...
     Options to reboot are:

     -n   option avoids the sync.  It can be used if a disk or
          the processor is on fire.
...

I can just imaging someone typing reboot -n on a terminal while using a
fire extinguisher!  It gives you a real sense for priorities.
-- 


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