>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jun 18 15:19:02 2001
>So sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] am Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 01:22:17PM +0200:
>> But UNIX un general don"t have it. So you should not rely on it.
>He doesn't - he merely explained to me, how less is set in Debian, or
>something like that. To my understanding, he nowhere said that he relies on
>this.
>You know, somehow I'm beginning to think, that compatability with ancient
>Unix systems is not important anymore. Maybe it's because of the pains that
What do you call ancient?
I know of no recent UNIX that has the directory.
>has to be taken to make sure that something as simple as his script is
>portable, maybe it's because of your constant rambilings against Linux and
>GNU and pro-Standards. Dunno.
If people in the Linux universe don't care about portability (even
bewteen different Linux distributions) then good bye UNIX and hello M$.
J�rg
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