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From: andreess@mrlaxs.mrl.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
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Subject: Re: AIX vs standard unix
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Date: 6 Jun 91 01:59:23 GMT
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In article <1991Jun5.165004.26667@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson)) writes:
>>> Some of the differences in AIX seem perverse (eg, why not spell it f77
>>> instead of xlf?)
>Gratuitous changes like this cause havoc for users, and for sysadmins
>trying to figure out how to make it work in a reasonable way [...]

ln -s /usr/bin/xlf /usr/bin/f77

Marc
[Disclaimer: I work for IBM too.]
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