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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: A/UX [nroff -ms] doesn't work
Message-ID: <5023@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 2 Aug 88 03:34:24 GMT
References: <3163@Portia.Stanford.EDU> <113@obie.UUCP> <15013@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: Grasshopper Group in San Francisco
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I guess a few of the "kludgy and obsolescent" BSD features left out of
A/UX are reasonable file name length, fast file access, dbx, gprof,
working compilers, reporting file system space in "Kbytes" rather than
a mix of other units, an "ls" that fits on your screen,
termcap/terminfo/vi that handle SIGWINCH, working nlist(), tar that
matches other unix tar options, an "fsck -n" that will leave your disk
alone, disk partitioning that's documented, TCP/IP that doesn't hang
when the other end crashes, prof that will print function names longer
than 8 characters, etc.

>                 You can copy your /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.s file from a BSD
> system over and it should just work fine.
> Philip K. Ronzone  A/UX System Architect
> Apple Computer MS 27AJ 10500 N. DeAnza Blvd. Cupertino CA 95014

What Phil advocates here is in direct violation of your AT&T Unix license.
-- 
John Gilmore    {sun,pacbell,uunet,pyramid,amdahl}!hoptoad!gnu    gnu@toad.com
      "And if there's danger don't you try to overlook it,
       Because you knew the job was dangerous when you took it"