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by **Luis Fernand** » Mon, 21 Aug 1995 04:00:00

The Solcrapis 2.4 units(1) man-page is "missing" the following
section, that is present in the SunOS 4.1 version:

BUGS
Do not base your financial plans on the currency conversions.

by **Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security Engine** » Tue, 22 Aug 1995 04:00:00

I always liked:

BUGS

Behaves oddly on nights with full moon.

That's from the catman manual page, also censored in newer editions.

Casper
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by **Maurizio Codog** » Tue, 22 Aug 1995 04:00:00

Quote:>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.

.mau.

by **Arthur D. Jeriji** » Thu, 24 Aug 1995 04:00:00

I found this interesting little blurb in the Linux
kernel:

/*
* 'fork.c' contains the help-routines for the 'fork' system call
* (see also system_call.s).
* Fork is rather simple, once you get the hang of it, but the memory
* management can be a *. See 'mm/mm.c': 'copy_page_tables()'
*/

...and this one...

/* vsprintf.c -- Lars Wirzenius & Linus Torvalds. */
/*
* Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds *ed it up :-)
*/

These have been around since Linux 0.01 and they still exist
in Linux 1.2.13.

by **J. Porter Cla** » Fri, 25 Aug 1995 04:00:00

My favorite, a heartfelt comment from the writer of
/usr/lib/lint/llib-lc on SunOS 4.X:

/*
* Damn RPC garbage.
*/

Also missing in Solaris 2, I think...

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by **J. Kan** » Sat, 26 Aug 1995 04:00:00

|> >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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by **Erez Lev** » Tue, 29 Aug 1995 04:00:00

>>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..."

Quote:
>.mau.

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by **Greg Robins** » Tue, 05 Sep 1995 04:00:00

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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by **Bill Fenn** » Sat, 09 Sep 1995 04:00:00

My favorite SunOS comment is deep in the bowels of /sys/os/subr_prf.c:

/* THIS CODE IS VAX DEPENDENT IN HANDLING %l? AND %c */

Uh, uh-oh =)

Sun seems to be really, really good at changing code and neglecting the
comments, especially in the kernel.

Bill

by **Stefan Jon Silverma** » Mon, 11 Sep 1995 04:00:00

Anybody remember the Steve Johnson (I worked for him at one point and always
liked the "yaccman" vanity license plate) comments in "pcc" (not the Oracle
thing, but the first "portable 'c' compiler") that said, to paraphrase,
"beyond this point dragons lurk" in the parser where he attempted
to make the "great unwashed" understand that "magic happens" and if you modify
the code "bad things happen"......from my understanding of the story, this
happened around 4 A.M. when he got the code to work on something besides a
Honywell and went parading aroung the halls of Bell Labs saying "it works"
and never understood why...even 15 years later when we at nCube got the latest
SV5R4 code, the comments were still there and the code had not changed....

I also, failing memory becoming apparent, would love somebody to remind me
of the 2 line code example that proves a compiler is based on the original
K&R compiler (ala' an error messsage that says "illegal GECOS BCD constant"). I
knew it once and have lost it....

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by **Brad Hunttin** » Wed, 13 Sep 1995 04:00:00

>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.

Not suprisingly, AIX is one of the few BSD ports to remvove this quote...
Just goes ta' show ya,.... :)

brad