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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [IPROUTE] 2nd try
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:55:41 -0700
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Alexander Wirt wrote:
> I need more sleep this time hopefully with the manpage attached. 
>
> Alex
>
>   
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> .TH SS 8
> .SH NAME
> ss \- another utility to investigate sockets
> .SH SYNOPSIS
> .B ss
> .RI [ options ] " [ FILTER ]"
> .SH DESCRIPTION
> This manual page documents briefly the
> .B ss
> command.
> .PP
> \fBss\fP is another utility to investigate sockets. Functionally it is
> NOT better than netstat combined with some perl/awk scripts and though it is
> surely faster it is not enough to make it much better. :-) So, stop reading
> this now and do not waste your time. Well, certainly, it proposes some
> functionality, which current netstat is still not able to do, but surely will
> soon.
>   

Amusing but hardly in keeping with the style and tone of other man pages.