Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!will From: will@genbank.bio.net (Will Nelson) Newsgroups: bionet.software Subject: Re: Information on HP 720 RISC workstation Summary: no ksh in SunOs Message-ID: Date: 29 Mar 91 20:01:05 GMT References: <9103272141.AA23152@genbank.bio.net> Organization: GenBank Online Service Lines: 20 In article <9103272141.AA23152@genbank.bio.net>, sgough@S850.MWC.EDU (stephen gough) writes: > > You should have no trouble going from SunOS to HP-UX if you are using standard > software calling standard libraries and the like. The differences lie mainly > in system administration (even those are fairly trivial) and systems-level > programming where the kernel itself is used, or where specific utilities (e.g., > an error log) are to be accessed. Both SunOS and HP_U-UX are System V-flavor > machines with some Berkeley extensions, but SunOS is a bit more "Berkeleyish." > This shouldn't matter unless you rely heavily on scripts which make heavy use > of BSD utilities. Both systems support the Bourne, C and korn shells. > I don't know what you mean when you say that SunOS "supports" the Korn shell. It is not included in SunOS 4.1.1 and never has been to my knowledge. -- Will Nelson Internet: will@presto.ig.com Intelligenetics, Inc. Uucp: ames!ig.com!presto!will 700 East El Camino Real (415) 962-7363 Mountain View, CA 94040