On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Mansur, Warren wrote:
> My biggest complaint is that half the tools, such as 'ps', 'tar', etc . .
> ., only seem to accept half as many options as other UNIX platforms, so I
> always have learn two versions of each command -- one for all UNIXes
> except Sun, and Sun.

  Just install the GNU tools.  That is what we did at UNH.  :-)

> Example: try tying 'ps aux' on Sun and see what happens.

  For that case, your problem is your background.  The command you provide
uses BSD syntax.  Solaris is a based on System V, not BSD.  Try "ps -ef"
instead.  You will have this problem on any SysV-based system.

-- 
Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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