From rob@twcny.rr.com Fri Nov 23 18:46:18 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 24 Nov 2001 02:46:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 65008 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2001 02:46:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m9.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 24 Nov 2001 02:46:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout6-0.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.177) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Nov 2001 02:46:17 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-0 [24.92.226.74]) by mailout6-0.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/Road Runner 1.12) with ESMTP id fAO2kG609047 for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 21:46:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from riff ([24.92.246.4]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 21:46:15 -0500 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 167Son-0000Q5-00 for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 21:45:25 -0500 Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 21:45:25 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] tar(1) tao Message-ID: <20011123214525.C1434@twcny.rr.com> Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com References: <109.91e092b.293043e8@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <109.91e092b.293043e8@aol.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com From: Rob Speer X-Yahoo-Profile: squeekybobo On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 07:29:28PM -0500, pycyn@aol.com wrote: > Well, any joke that gets explained becomes unfunny to the explained-to. I am > still unclear as to how "tar(1)" expands. It's a custom in Unix to name commands by the heading on their man page. 'tar' is in section 1 of the manual. I'm not sure what the rest of the sig means. -- la rab.spir noi sarji zo gumri