Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 11:56:10 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan Hubbard), bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fortune candidate from #FreeBSD on EFNet Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20001108115409.04b755e0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <xzpwveeqpx8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <Dag-Erling Smorgrav's message of "08 Nov 2000 19:12:06 %2B0100"> <200011081711.KAA19291@usr08.primenet.com> <xzp66lys58p.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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The irony of all of this is that the man pages rarely give much insight into how FreeBSD actually *works*. They document the APIs and userland commands, which (as we all know) can be implemented on systems that work in very different, strange, and (yes) mysterious ways. --Brett At 11:28 AM 11/8/2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >And I was right! Sorry, Terry, but you were once again caught with >your foot deeply ensconced within your mouth. > > "Truly, O God of Israel, our Savior, you work in strange and > mysterious ways." -- Isaiah 45:15 > > "God's ways are as hard to discern as the pathways of the wind, > and as mysterious as a tiny baby being formed in a mother's > womb." -- Ecclesiastes 11:5 > >DES >-- >Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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