Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!pacbell!ames!rex!ukma!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!usc!ucla-cs!uci-ics!orion.cf.uci.edu!balboa!fleming
From: fleming@balboa (Dennis Paul Fleming)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: AIX - How is it? (Summary - long)
Message-ID: <2461@orion.cf.uci.edu>
Date: 5 Aug 89 01:52:05 GMT
References: <557@limbic.UUCP> <29176@beta.lanl.gov> <972@ks.UUCP> <12938@well.UUCP> <977@ks.UUCP>
Sender: news@orion.cf.uci.edu
Reply-To: fleming@balboa.UUCP (Dennis Paul Fleming)
Distribution: comp
Organization: EE Dept., University of California, Irvine
Lines: 21

In article <977@ks.UUCP> drake@ibmarc.UUCP (Sam Drake) writes:
>In article <12938@well.UUCP> gors@well.UUCP (Gordon Stewart) writes:
>>
>>I especially don't like that they've changed the name of some common
>>commands (if you use AIX, you know which ones) and added multi-letter
>>command-line options -- a clear poke in the eye to System V, which
>>actually has STANDARDS about commands and options.  
>
>Can someone give me an example or two of each of these?  What command
>names are non-standard in AIX/RT 2.2.1?  What commands have multi-letter
>command line options?  

	The two most frustrating in my experience where
		telnet (called tn in AIX) and
		ftp (given the name xftp)

	Why IBM would shorten one command name and lengthen the other
is beyond me.

	the print command has several multi-letter command line options:
-bp, -ca, etc.