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[Ben Scott]

On 1/10/06, Jon maddog Hall <maddog at li.org> wrote:
> I was the senior systems administrator for Bell Labs in North Andover, MA.  I
> got the job without ever having seen a UNIX system.

  Well, really.  How many people *had* seen a UNIX system, back then?  ;-)

  (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

> It was that experience that led me to page through section (1) of the manual
> every six months, just to remind myself of the gold that was hidden in those
> pages.

  I learned the plurality of what I know about the shell by reading
the bash(1) man "page" (and most of that while sitting at VT-320's in
UNH computer clusters, no less).  Never underestimate the power of
RTFM.  :-)

-- Ben