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From: simon@ms.uky.edu (G. Simon Gales)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Don't strip /xenix (the w command complains)
Summary: What version of Xenix?
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.011231.10085@ms.uky.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 91 01:12:31 GMT
References: <1991Jan11.183916.261@wcbcs.uucp> <1991Jan12.235536.12144@xrtll.uucp>
Organization: University of Kentucky
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In article <1991Jan12.235536.12144@xrtll.uucp> silver@xrtll.UUCP (Hi Ho Silver) writes:
>In comp.unix.xenix.sco, grwalter@wcbcs.uucp (Fred Walter) typed:
>$In a previous article I asked why I shouldn't strip /xenix.... I just found
>$out. At least one command (w - it complains with "can't find namelist" or
>$some such thing) doesn't like it.
>
>   ps also won't like you, and that's a pretty important command (if you
>don't believe me, take a look through /etc/shutdown).  In fact, anything
>that needs to look at the process table will probably break if you strip
>/xenix.
>-- 

In my xenix 286 2.2.3 system, there's a 'strip xenix' in the kernal
makefile.  

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