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From: buck@siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: AIX Peculiarities
Message-ID: <437@siswat.UUCP>
Date: 5 Aug 89 05:44:11 GMT
References: <13000@well.UUCP>
Organization: Photon Graphics,  Houston
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In article <13000@well.UUCP>, gors@well.UUCP (Gordon Stewart) writes:

I am not a big fan of AIX, but these points are nitpicking.

> Two examples off the top of my head --
> 
> 'print'   (whatever happened to 'pr'?) has several multi-char options,
> 	including 'dd' (drop dead) and 'ca' (for 'cancel')

At least it still means to really print something.  The Korn shell
appropriated print to mean "new echo", which I consider horrific.
One does wonder, though, how one uses the real AIX print command in
the Korn shell...

> 'tctl'	takes options 'rewind' 'retension' 'reset' etc....

The vanilla SVR2 port on the NSC ICM-3216 has a command "mt", with essentially
the same syntax and keywords.  I consider this an improvement over picking
one of the above keywords for the -r, and forever after trying to remember
what the others were.

> Michael Sierchio
> 				{apple, pacbell, hplabs, ucbvax}!well!gors
> 							gors@well.sf.ca.us

If you want to complain about AIX, why not pick some real issues, like
how IBM has no plans to sell source licenses EVER, or how OSF/1 will
have a completely new driver interface "under the hood" that looks like
VRM, so we all get to rewrite our drivers in the near future.

-- 
A. Lester Buck		...!texbell!moray!siswat!buck