Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rabbit.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!harpo!eagle!alice!rabbit!ark From: ark@rabbit.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: More UNIX Man Page Funnies Message-ID: <1574@rabbit.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Jun-83 09:43:34 EDT Article-I.D.: rabbit.1574 Posted: Thu Jun 9 09:43:34 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Jun-83 13:00:29 EDT References: <166@packet.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 14 My two favorites come from the BSTJ special issue. First one is in the article on the "typo" program. It contains sample output, which shows a list of possibly misspelled words. Each actual typo is indicated by a symbol in the shape of a little hand shadow with a pointing finger. The caption says: "... the actual errors have been marked by hand." I forget where the other one is, but it talks about the fact that certain characters have particular meaning to the system, such as #, @, and so on. It then says: "If one of these special characters is preceded by a backslash, it loses its special character."