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Manual Quotes

I have found several funny lines in manuals for free software. Here seems as good a place as any to compile them. I suspect that some of these are just how the authors of Texinfo manuals stay sane.

CAUTION: This subsubsection has been reported to cause headaches. You might want to skip it upon first reading.

- info gawk, section 9.1.3.1

Beware that 'm4' may be dangerous for the health of compulsive programmers.

- info m4, section 1.1

In this case, I would suggest reading the whole of section 1.1 for the full experience. This is just the punchline.

false - do nothing, unsuccessfully

- man false(1)

Never use this function.

- man gets(3)

BUGS
It's too big and too slow.

- man bash(1)

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