Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!rdm From: rdm@cernapo (Alphonse Rademakers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: BSD and HPUX, The Questions Continue... Message-ID: Date: 3 May 91 16:41:03 GMT References: <1991May2.202710.5152@odin.diku.dk> Sender: news@cernvax.cern.ch Organization: none Lines: 42 In-reply-to: carllp@diku.dk's message of 2 May 91 20:27:10 GMT I am a new (Snake) HP-UX user, coming from Domain_Os (BSD version). I must admit that I was pleasantly surprised that on first sight HP-UX looked a lot like BSD. So to comfort Carl-Lykke a bit I'll check his list... >>>>> On 2 May 91 20:27:10 GMT, carllp@diku.dk (Carl-Lykke Pedersen) said: Carl-Lykke> I would be much happier with HPUX if Carl-Lykke> - chmod had an -R option is has Carl-Lykke> - man used the PAGER and MANPATH environment-variable it uses both of them Carl-Lykke> - diff could make context-diffs! it can Carl-Lykke> - I could include as well as are both included Carl-Lykke> - checklist was called fstab not yet Carl-Lykke> - ls -g showed the group it does Carl-Lykke> - sam could use fully qualified domainnames I don't know Carl-Lykke> - libBSD included some more functions (Why can't they be in libc?) Carl-Lykke> - /usr/include/arpa contained some more files Carl-Lykke> - quota existed on HPUX-filesystems it exists Carl-Lykke> - remsh was called rsh it is Carl-Lykke> - SIGWINDOW was called SIGWINCH (and some program used it) it is not Carl-Lykke> - Carl-Lykke> Are HPUX going to be better? Is HPUX 8.0? Will OSF/1 be? HP-UX 8.0 is definitely better. Cheers, Fons Rademakers. -- Org: CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research. Mail: 1123 Geneve, Switzerland Fax: +22 7677155 Phone: +22 7674886 or 7675049 UUCP: rdm@cernapo.cern.ch BITNET: rdm@cernvm.bitnet