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The GURU manual page.
Written by an unknown author <user@foo.com>
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- NAME
- guru - System administration
- SYNOPSIS
- guru [ -e program ] [ -f ] [ -p target ]
- DESCRIPTION
- guru is a sophisticated program synthesis and system maintenance
tool developed after midnight in numerous university
computing labs. It is based on the famous LISP Hacker system,
used to develop AI programs on TENEX. guru reads a
problem description from the standard input. An innovative
and occasionally correct solution is generated and written
to the standard output. Typically, guru is invoked repeatedly
until an acceptable solution is generated or the user
community has learned to live with the problem.
The bugreport mechanism sometimes invokes guru. In this
case guru executes at a priority inversely proportional to
the reported urgency of the bug. Feature enhancements run
at high priority whereas critical problems are fixed only
when the machine would otherwise be idle.
If the standard input is empty, guru uses its program synthesis
capabilities to generate a selection of screen editors, X widgets,
compilers, sundry games and the occasional diatribe.
- OPTIONS
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- -e program
- New features are added to an existing program. This
option should be used with caution as the enhanced
program may behave unpredictably or not at all.
- -f
- Reconstructs filesystems after a crash.
- -p target
- Ports the entire system on which guru is executing
to target, preferably a RISC machine. This is an
extremely time consuming operation and is not
guaranteed to terminate.
If more than one option is specified, guru may thrash. Each
copy of guru has its own set of unique, additional and undocumented options.
- SEE ALSO
- YAPS: Yet another Program Synthesiser by S C Johnson.
- NOTES
- Inherent design limitations prevent guru from synthesising
comments. The programs generated are undocumented. The
lucidity, politeness, relevance and language of the occasional
diatribe vary considerably.
The only diagnostic is an occasional ``I deserve a raise'' -
which may be ignored albeit doing so may provoke ``I
resign'' - an unrecoverable error.
Sending the output of one guru into another can produce
quite startling results.
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