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tourist information
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n. Information in an on-line display that is not immediately useful, but
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contributes to a viewer's gestalt of what's going on with the software or
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hardware behind it. Whether a given piece of info falls in this category
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depends partly on what the user is looking for at any given time. The bytes
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free information at the bottom of an MS-DOS or Windows dir display is
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tourist information; so (most of the time) is the TIME information in a Unix
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ps (1) display.
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