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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.micro.att
Subject: Re: UNIX PC command surprises...
Message-ID: <1948@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 20-Mar-86 00:59:20 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.1948
Posted: Thu Mar 20 00:59:20 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Mar-86 23:53:51 EST
References: <351@hropus.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.ARPA
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL)
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In article <351@hropus.UUCP> jrw@hropus.UUCP (Jim Webb) writes:
>	Has anyone else out there noticed that on the "7300" the
>	grep, egrep, and fgrep commands are IDENTICAL.  The other
>	day I did an egrep "nproc|NPROC" or some such thing and
>	it failed!  A quick cmp of grep and egrep yielded no 
>	differences, in fact, grep and fgrep are linked together.
> ...
>	But enough already, right?  There is one nice undocumented
>	feature about the 7300 I did discover though, link the
>	ls command to lf and you will get astericks after executables
>	(sort of like an automatic ls -CF) and linking it to ll gives
>	an automatic ls -l.

In other words, the 7300 does not have UNIX, but rather an
approximation thereof.  What a crock!  ATTIS is liable to
lose big in the marketplace if they can't get their UNIX
act together any better than they have so far.