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Originally Posted by Daithi
Lastly, several years ago we had a refrigerator sized computer called a Pyramid that ran UNIX, and while looking through the manual I came across a page that had the name of a command, and where the description of the command should have been it said,
"Someone stole this page out of the manual."
This was actually printed in their manual.
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Ah, the early days of UNIX. I loved reading man pages, with Bugs: entries that said things like "If you do <this> without first doing <that>, absolute chaos is guaranteed." I also like Bugs: like "Small bird dropping like things may appear in your output"
Browsing through old copies of the termcap database also had amusing moments. Old termcap hackers could be blunt about the terminals they were trying to support.
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Dennis