Off topic: Humor from the Linux manpages
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From: J G Miller on 18 Feb 2010 21:38 On Friday, February 19th, 2010 at 01:18:26h +0000, Rahul asked: > Any other such classics that are hidden inside otherwise dreary > manpages? Any pet favorites? From the manual page for devilspie (1) QUOTE BUGS This manpage is almost useless, as it was thrown together on a train. UNQUOTE
From: Frank Stutzman on 18 Feb 2010 23:25 Rahul <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > Got me thinking: Any other such classics that are hidden inside otherwise > dreary manpages? Any pet favorites? Linux can be fun! :) A long time ago, the HP-UX C debugger had a 'F' command to 'find and fix bugs' option. The man page described it as a "Useless, but humorous command" Using it, you would get a nine random one-liners of the like "Oh, I see the problem, but you would learn more if you found it yourself" and "Your drabulator is overflowing its flux channel". I found the real funny part when I got a peek at the source code for it. It consisted of an ten element array that contained the one liners. There was an index that was randomly generated to get choose the one liner. This index, though could only be in the range 1 through 9 inclusively. That ment that the first one liner in the array could never be retrieved. Yes, the "find and fix bug" option in of itself had a bug. -- Frank Stutzman
From: Teemu Likonen on 19 Feb 2010 01:34 * 2010-02-19 01:18 (UTC), Rahul wrote: > Got me thinking: Any other such classics that are hidden inside > otherwise dreary manpages? Any pet favorites? Linux can be fun! :) Mutt(1) man page has this: BUGS None. Mutts have fleas, not bugs. FLEAS [...]
From: Charlie Gibbs on 19 Feb 2010 12:28 In article <Xns9D23C464A87936650A1FC0D7811DDBC81(a)85.214.113.135>, nospam(a)nospam.invalid (Rahul) writes: > Got me thinking: Any other such classics that are hidden inside > otherwise dreary manpages? Any pet favorites? Linux can be fun! :) Is BSD close enough? The man page for the BSD tunefs(8) utility lists, under BUGS: You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish. The man page for xwud(1) used to contain the following note: This is a crude version of a more advanced utility that has never been written. -- /~\ cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
From: Rahul on 19 Feb 2010 17:16
"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! :) -- Rahul |