Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!noao!ncar!gatech!prism!gt1111a From: gt1111a@prism.gatech.EDU (Vincent Fox) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: New HP machines Bad News for NeXT?? Message-ID: <29488@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 21 May 91 03:43:19 GMT References: <1991May20.143857.1071@hulaw1.harvard.edu> Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 26 hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes: >As a user of both HP and NeXT I must come to the defense of HP. >First they do run unix -- HP-UX (which is much better documented and >supported than Mach/NextStep; a call to the HP-Support line gets you a >fix within an hour, rahter than being shrugged off to your >Campus-Rep). Perhaps this HP and Unix are different, but the HP 9000/835 with HP-UX 7 we have has a number of annoying deficiencies: 1) no BSD cross-compatibility. lpr? Hah never heard of it. Even SGI added lpr to their OS. 2) no recursive options on many commands. Try to chown or chgrp a whole directory sometime. 3) Maybe it's just me but I can't get the HP to understand rdist from any platform except another HP. And yes, HP does have a help-line. But frequently I get someone who knows less about it than I do. I want gurus dammit, not someone I have to explain things to several times. -- Vincent Fox (That's Mr. Bucko to you)|Georgia Tech, the only place where Friday Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA |is only two working days away from Monday. SR-71: gt1111a@prism.gatech.edu | -- Uttered by David Sonnier during Pony Express:...!gatech!prism!gt1111a| CS3602 lab 5/10/1991 ~ 1730 EDT