Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Bayard Coolidge USG wrote:
> > ... particularly since I don't have time to make a detailed study of the
> > POSIX standard...
>
> ... and no one else does, either, so it wouldn't help in any event...
Oh, come on, this isn't really true.
If the thrust of this argument is correct, then
o highly portable shell scripts wouldn't exist (ever use configure?)
o the POSIX books that I have on my desk wouldn't be so dog-eared
o Someone like Bayard, who seems pretty sharp to me, wouldn't be
able to help out his daughter with what are probably going to be
some pretty easy tasks. I doubt this is really true.
Yes, various Unix OS's and distributions of these OS's are
sufficiently different to cause some problems, generally, this isn't a
intractable problem to deal with.
--kevin
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