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From: system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson))
Subject: Re: AIX vs standard unix
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.173343.21209@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
References: <1991Jun5.165004.26667@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> <1991Jun6.040937.11339@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com> <30757@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1991 17:33:43 GMT

In article <30757@hydra.gatech.EDU> richd@prism.gatech.EDU (Richard Dellaripa) writes:
>jsalter@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com writes:
>
>>I don't understand.  Just add a stanza in /etc/xlf.cfg, and make a link
>>from /bin/f77 to /bin/xlf, and now you have a f77.  If you want to get into
>>the deeper aspects of why xlf isn't the 4.3 BSD f77, you'll have to fight
>>it out with one of the compiler folks.
>
>If it's so easy to do (and I don't see why it wouldn't be), why didn't
>IBM do it themselves? This illustrates the major problem I personally
>have with AIX...its developers seemed to have often changed things from
>the de facto Un*x standards for no (percieved at least) real reason.

This is of course exactly what we did, ONCE WE FIGURED OUT WHAT HAD TO
BE DONE. I agree 100% with Richard Dellaripa's comments.
-- 
Mike Peterson, System Administrator, U/Toronto Department of Chemistry
E-mail: system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
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