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From: chris@westnet.westnet.com (Christopher X. Candreva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish
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Date: 15 Aug 1995 11:55:31 -0400
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Steve McKinty - SunSoft ICNC Grenoble (smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM) wrote:

: A brief digression from the group title, but I liked some of the
: jokes in VMS files. The header files relating to system security
: were things like ciadef.h, kgbdef.h (and they even had some
: tortured acronym worked out to justify them). 

If you still have access to a VMS system, and it has datatrieve, fire it up
and type "help wombat".

Quite amusing.

-Chris

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