Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uakari!ctrsol!ginosko!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!mecazh!paul
From: paul@mecazh.UUCP (Paul Breslaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Need BSD->HP-UX porting headaches
Message-ID: <350@node17.mecazh.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jul 89 22:28:05 GMT
References: <5570240@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Organization: Mecasoft SA, Zurich, Switzerland
Lines: 41

rer@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Rob Robason) writes:

>I am involved in an investigation into providing better portability of
>4.3 BSD applications to HP-UX 

>If you are a BSD advocate, this is an excellent opportunity to help HP
>move HP-UX toward being a more Berkeley like system.  

>The fact that HP-UX is based on the BSD kernel makes it
>possible for us to consider adding even more BSD functionality, in
>addition to our full SVID compliance.

So why don't you be terribly Berkeley-like and put *ALL* the UPM documentation
in one place. You know, so that I don't have to look for a folder with a 
title such as:-

  ARPA Programming and Network Services (NFS) For Berkeley and Other Things We
  Borrowed From Other People References/9000

when all I want is to check the type of the 4th parameter of recv(2).

How are poor novices supposed to know that socket(2) was not invented
by AT&T, and therefore is to be found in a different part of the documentation.

Why does login(1) have a manual entry that mentions 

     login -r rhost

and /etc/hosts.equiv, but I have to be a clairvoyent to guess
that all the real information is to found in ARPA/Berkeley Services
References Pages?
 

Paul Breslaw
Mecasoft SA
Guggachstrasse 10
8057 Zurich
Switzerland

tel:    +41 1 362 2040
e-mail: ...mcvax!cernvax!mecazh!paul