From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 16 18:20:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66BEE37B422 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 18:20:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 0CEDD6ACBE; Thu, 17 May 2001 10:50:24 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 10:50:24 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: j mckitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: style(9) question Message-ID: <20010517105023.D98105@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010516140931.B64248@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 +0100 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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