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From: markj@infmx.UUCP (Mark Jeske)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Re: SysV + BSD + Pyramid.
Message-ID: <5019@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 18 Aug 90 06:05:21 GMT
References: <308@dynasys.UUCP>
Reply-To: markj@infmx.UUCP (Mark Jeske(Chicago Consultan)t)
Organization: Informix, Menlo Park, Ca. U.S.A.
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In article <308@dynasys.UUCP> jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher) writes:
>I'm going to be working with Pyramids sometime in the near future and I
>was curious about something.  Someone mentioned that you are able to
>run both SysV and BSD software, but it would switch modes or some such.
>Does anyone have any more information on this?  Thanx much.

Yes, they have a dual universe system.  the universe command will display
which universe you are in, either ucb or att.  You can run commands
from either by prefixing them with att or ucb.  For example in the
att universe you can do:

  cat /etc/passwd | ucb more

Mark Jeske
Informix Software
markj@infmx.com