[clug] Favourite moments in man pages

Steven Hanley sjh at svana.org
Mon Jul 27 05:32:51 UTC 2015


On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 02:54:06PM +1000, Bob Edwards wrote:
> Not actually my favourite, but one I've stumbled over several times
> in the past week (because I am old and need to refer to the same
> man page over and again... Others might resort to G00gle searching,
> but I resist emphatically...).
> 
> from resize2fs(8) (on Debian Jessie):
> 
>  "Note: when kilobytes is used above, I mean real, power-of-2
>   kilobytes, (i.e., 1024 bytes), which some politically correct
>   folks insist should be the stupid-sounding ``kibibytes''. The
>   same holds true for megabytes, also sometimes known as
>   ``mebibytes'', or gigabytes, as the amazingly silly ``gibibytes''.
>   Makes you want to gibber, doesn't it?"


I like that one, I can not remember some of the other entertaining (but
mostly normal) man pages out there. I know there are a few with similar sort
of commentary.

Of course for deliberately amusing man pages there are the packages

funny-manpages 
asr-manpages

(though not in Debian stable currently for licencing reasons they can be
retrievd from wheezy or on other systems (ubuntu, etc))

	See You
	    Steve



> 
> scores on http://www.online-utility.org:
> 
> Number of characters (without spaces) : 	274.00
> Number of words : 	54.00
> Number of sentences : 	5.00
> Average number of characters per word : 	5.07
> Average number of syllables per word : 	1.81
> Average number of words per sentence: 	10.80
> 
> Indication of the number of years of formal education that a person
> requires in order to easily understand the text on the first reading
> Gunning Fog index : 	11.73
> 
> Approximate representation of the U.S. grade level needed to
> comprehend the text : 	
> Coleman Liau index : 	11.31
> Flesch Kincaid Grade level : 	10.04 	
> ARI (Automated Readability Index) : 	7.87 	
> SMOG : 	10.75 	
> 
> Flesch Reading Ease : 	42.34
> 
> Anyone else want to share a fav?
> 
> Bob Edwards.
> 
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