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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: System 5 porting
Message-ID: <1528@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 1 May 89 22:00:22 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >>I have done some porting of software from the bsd systems to system 5.
 >> ... [and I want references on what the differences might be] ...
 >
 >As well as other references cited in this thread (Lapin etc.), you might
 >try getting a copy of  UNIX System V Release 4.0 Migration Reference
 >Guide -- Berkeley System  from AT&T.

Note that this will describe the differences between BSD (4.3BSD,
probably) and S5R4 - which may not be quite as helpful if you're
interested in S5R3, say, since a lot of stuff that's in BSD and will be
in S5R4 isn't in vanilla S5R3 (symbolic links and job control, to give
two examples).