Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tekgen!sail!terryl From: terryl@sail.LABS.TEK.COM Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: POSIX bashing (Was Re: Retaining file permissions) Keywords: chmod, sed, awk... and good old *cat*! Message-ID: <9090@sail.LABS.TEK.COM> Date: 8 Mar 91 18:50:29 GMT References: <1991Feb28.205734.26484@athena.mit.edu> <21795@yunexus.YorkU.CA> <3419@unisoft.UUCP> <1991Mar07.073936.12552@kithrup.COM> Reply-To: terryl@sail.LABS.TEK.COM Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 29 In article <1991Mar07.073936.12552@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes: >In article <3419@unisoft.UUCP> greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf) writes: >>It's truly a pity that System V has more marketing clout; BSD is just SO >>much more usable. > >In what way? On kithrup, I have job control, command-line editing (I use >ksh), networking (still useful even though kithrup is the only machine it >can connect to 8-)), and a few other nifty-keen things. I ... know of some >other useful things coming out, but I can't comment on them. Well, I, too use a SYSV machine that has all of the neat (and nice!! (-:) Berkeley extensions, i.e. job control, FFS (Fast File System for all you non- TLAers out there!!! (-:), and some other goodies; I don't like it as much as a REAL BSD(TM of someone out there, I'm sure!!! (-:). Why??? I can still backspace over my prompt...... __________________________________________________________ Terry Laskodi "There's a permanent crease of in your right and wrong." Tektronix Sly and the Family Stone, "Stand!" __________________________________________________________ PS: For the humor-impaired amongst you out there, sprinkle even more (-: than I already have, i.e. (in my best Foghorn Leghorn voice): "It's a joke, son!!!!" And yes, although it does have job control, it doesn't have the NEWER tty driver that handles things like my complain graciously......