Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 10:50:24 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: style(9) question Message-ID: <20010517105023.D98105@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20010516140931.B64248@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:09:32PM %2B0100 References: <20010516140931.B64248@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Wednesday, 16 May 2001 at 14:09:32 +0100, j mckitrick wrote: > > Reminds me of story: > > A young lady watches her mom cut the ends off a ham before she bakes it. > The girl asks why, and the mother explains that's the way *her* mother did > it. The mother starts thinking, and asks the grandmother, who also replies > "well, that's just the way my mother did it." Finally, the grandmother asks > the great-grandmother why she always cut the ends off the ham before baking > it. The great-grandmother says "because when i started cooking, the ovens > were so small you *had* to cut the ends off the ham to make it fit!" Nice! One of the dictates of style(9) is that lines must not be longer than 80 characters. That's because punched cards had 80 characters, and so did old-fashioned terminals. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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