From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 8 10:56:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0031637B4CF; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:56:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA16925; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 11:56:16 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20001108115409.04b755e0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 11:56:10 -0700 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Terry Lambert From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: fortune candidate from #FreeBSD on EFNet Cc: jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan Hubbard), bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <200011081711.KAA19291@usr08.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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