On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 01:14:21 +0100 Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:
> You've been playing with solaris packages? Google thingks xpg4 is > something to do with X/Open, but xpg4/bin gets mentioned in questions > about the differences between multiple versions of common unix tools, > usually on solaris, sometiems on HP-UX (for POSIX-compliant versions > of the tools, where the old vendor-supplied versions are "limited"). For those interested, I found a good discussion about it here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/198905/when-to-use-xpg-version-of-a-command The xpg versions are POSIX-compliant. The xpg directory is not generally needed or used under Linux of FreeBSD because the default system utilities in /bin and /usr/bin are already POSIX-compliant. Cheers, Mike Shell -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
