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From: wohler@sapwdf.UUCP (Bill Wohler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: It works everywhere else, but not on AIX
Message-ID: <2751@sapwdf.UUCP>
Date: 17 Apr 91 13:55:55 GMT
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Reply-To: Bill Wohler <wohler@sap-ag.de>
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phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN) writes:
>Subject: Re: It works everywhere else, but not on AIX

phil,

  first, *never* use absolutes.  for example, you cannot specify
  arbitrary directories with hpux's df, therefore it doesn't work
  *everywhere*. ;-)

  however, you can specify an arbitrary directory with df on suns,
  decs and, surprise, aix:

  [wohler@aix3:902]% df -i .
  Filesystem    Total KB    free %used   iused %iused Mounted on
  aix1:/usr/aix/a  155648   50240   67%   -       - /tmp_mnt/auto0ERIAAA

  i don't know offhand of a way to determine without df which
  filesystem you're on.  but perhaps your alias for df is breaking it
  or you're running someone's hack and not the system df.  try
  which(1).

  we have not observed read() and write() to behave differently than
  other systems.

  good question: an option to request assembler output is *not*
  documented.
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						--bw
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Bill Wohler <wohler@sap-ag.de> <sapwdf!wohler>
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