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From: renglish@cello.hpl.hp.com (Bob English)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.sysv386,comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Snakebytes (long -- and poisonous?).
Message-ID: <1991Apr04.172441.22142@cello.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 4 Apr 91 17:24:41 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs
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peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> In article <31@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:
> > HP-UX or any other SysV based OS is too painful to administrate.
> What have you been smoking? I want some.

I don't think he's been smoking anything.  If most of the systems he
works with are BSD-based, a single SysV based machine, or a new group of
them will be painful to administer.  Many of the scripts that he's
written won't work correctly, and the user community will complain that
things don't work as they used to.

--bob--
renglish@hplabs
Not speaking for anyone.