Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpfcso!hpfcdc!rodean From: rodean@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bruce Rodean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: BSD and HPUX, The Questions Continue... Message-ID: <5570626@hpfcdc.HP.COM> Date: 8 May 91 14:23:14 GMT References: <1991May2.202710.5152@odin.diku.dk> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Ft. Collins, CO. Lines: 46 In article <1991May2.202710.5152@odin.diku.dk> carllp@diku.dk (Carl-Lykke Pedersen) writes: > I like many things about HPUX. It has some of the best facilities from > BSD, and its not that hard to make a HPUX feel *almost* like a > BSD-system. But why, Oh why, doesn't HPUX go more of the way? I have rearranged some of Carl-Lykke's comments so that I can group them better. > I would be much happier with HPUX if > - chmod had an -R option > - man used the PAGER and MANPATH environment-variable > - I could include as well as > - quota existed on HPUX-filesystems All these are coming out in 8.0. > - ls -g showed the group This was in 7.0. > - libBSD included some more functions (Why can't they be in libc?) A lot of stuff from libBSD.a was moved into libc.a for 8.0. Plus some new ones as well. Among them were: bcmp, bcopy, bzero, ffs, getusershell, index, mkstemp, rindex, strcasecmp, and strncasecmp. > - diff could make context-diffs! Sorry I don't know about this. > - checklist was called fstab I think checklist is mandated by Sys V. > - remsh was called rsh The name rsh is used to denote the restricted Bourne shell. > - sam could use fully qualified domainnames > - /usr/include/arpa contained some more files > - SIGWINDOW was called SIGWINCH (and some program used it) Can't help you here. These are out of my area. Sorry. Bruce Rodean rodean@hpfclg.fc.hp.com