Unix Quote (was: Re: building a PDP11 from the things you

From: Carlos Murillo <cmurillo_at_emtelsa.multi.net.co>
Date: Fri Aug 10 07:32:50 2001

At 01:16 AM 8/10/01 -0400, you wrote:
> -spc (And can you explain the insanely different command line parameters
> to ls (typical Unix command line), find and dd? All three, I think
> are POSIX to some degree 8-)

Mhh, care to highlight a particularly nasty difference in ls? (dd I know).
When in doubt, use sed. Except for a certain bug in the HPUX 10.20
release, it behaves quite uniformly across the board.

I brought the issue of interoperability on board because I like to be able
to use different unixes w/o too many different quirks; however, we
started comparing DCL vs. Unix shells. Interoperability is a moot issue
for DCL, of course. It is a higher standard that we're requiring
of Unix. Perhaps we should stick to one flavor of Unix when making
the comparisons? (I know, I'm taking a step back from my former position;
you guys are too tough :-) ).

carlos.


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Received on Fri Aug 10 2001 - 07:32:50 BST