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tunafish
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n. In hackish lore, refers to the mutated punchline of an age-old joke to be
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found at the bottom of the manual pages of tunefs (8) in the original BSD
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4.2 distribution. The joke was removed in later releases once commercial
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sites started using 4.2, but apparently restored on the 4.4BSD tape and in
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{Net,Free,Open}BSD. Tunefs relates to the tuning of file-system parameters
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for optimum performance, and at the bottom of a few pages of wizardly
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inscriptions was a BUGS section consisting of the line You can tune a file
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system, but you can't tunafish. Variants of this can be seen in other BSD
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versions, though it has been excised from some versions by humorless
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management droid s. The [nt]roff source for SunOS 4.1.1 contains a comment
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apparently designed to prevent this: Take this out and a Unix Demon will dog
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your steps from now until the time_t 's wrap around. [It has since been
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pointed out that indeed you can tunafish. Usually at a canning factory...
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