Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!shelby!Portia!forel!karish
From: karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: BSD Unix on 6150-135?
Message-ID: <559@Portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 1 Mar 89 04:52:25 GMT
References: <1966@nmtsun.nmt.edu> <28304@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <496@Portia.Stanford.EDU> <2852@stpstn.UUCP>
Sender: USENET News System <news@Portia.stanford.edu>
Reply-To: karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
Organization: Stanford University School of Earth Sciences
Lines: 29

In article <2852@stpstn.UUCP> aad@stepstone.com wrote:
>I wish they'd give them normal names, though.  ftp becomes xftp, and I
>just discovered lpr lurking as lprbe.  It'd also be nice to find the
>binaries in expected places, instead of /usr/lpp.
>I imagine these things would be clearer if we had documentation.

ftp is called 'ftp' in 2.2.1.  lprbe is closer to lpd than it is to
lpr, I think; there's a separate 'lp' program that just puts jobs on the
queue. 

>I go insane because of the things that aren't there, like more, head, tail,
>whoami, clear, strings.

This is a System V issue, not an AIX issue.  'tail' is there.  'head'
is a trivial macro or sed script; the simplest version is 'sed 10q'.
'whoami' is a one-liner in C:

	main() { printf("%s\n", getlogin()); }

'clear' should be easy to do with curses.  'more' and 'strings' are
available as PD clones.  If it's really driving you nuts, spend an
hour or two and fix it.

One report from the preview meetings about SysVR4 was that "they
weren't bridging the gap between SysV and BSD; they were filling
it in".  I'm just as happy that IBM isn't going quite that far.

	Chuck Karish	karish@denali.stanford.edu
			hplabs!hpda!mindcrf!karish