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From: Jean-David Beyer on 19 Feb 2010 21:08
Rahul wrote:
> "Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote in
> news:784.737T1793T5684670(a)kltpzyxm.invalid:
>
>> Is BSD close enough? The man page for the BSD tunefs(8) utility
>> lists, under BUGS:
>>
>
> If its funny enough its close enough. That counts! :)
>
This is even a trifle off-topic for this thread, but how about this
comment (the only comment) in a big mess of assembly code:


You are not expected to understand this.


And another one I have great sympathy for:


They made me do it.

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From: John Hasler on 19 Feb 2010 21:52
Jean-David Beyer writes:
> This is even a trifle off-topic for this thread, but how about this comment
> (the only comment) in a big mess of assembly code:

> "You are not expected to understand this."

That's from the Sixth Edition Unix source code:
<http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/odd.html>.
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From: Maxwell Lol on 19 Feb 2010 23:07
Rahul <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> writes:

> Got me thinking: Any other such classics that are hidden inside otherwise
> dreary manpages? Any pet favorites? Linux can be fun! :)

I think the Solaris manual page for the sound driver (/dev/audio) had
the comment that "cat /dev/random /dev/audio" may be noisy

I always liked that understatement.
From: Florian Diesch on 19 Feb 2010 23:56
Rahul <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> writes:

> Got me thinking: Any other such classics that are hidden inside otherwise
> dreary manpages? Any pet favorites? Linux can be fun! :)

I'm not quite sure if
<http://linux.about.com/od/funnymanpages/Funny_Manpages.htm> counts
here...


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From: Grant Edwards on 20 Feb 2010 11:32
On 2010-02-20, Maxwell Lol <nospam(a)com.invalid> wrote:
> Rahul <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> writes:
>
>> Got me thinking: Any other such classics that are hidden inside otherwise
>> dreary manpages? Any pet favorites? Linux can be fun! :)
>
> I think the Solaris manual page for the sound driver (/dev/audio) had
> the comment that "cat /dev/random /dev/audio" may be noisy

Reading /dev/audio won't produce noise, so one presumes that
was "cat /dev/random >/dev/audio"?

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