[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo) wrote on 29.06.99 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Printing commands - cancel, lp, lpstat, pr > Divergence: These commands are not required by LSB. Instead, the BSD > printing commands (lpq, lpr, lprm, lptest, lpc, lpd, lpf, and pac). > Rationale: These commands are from the System V style of managing printers. > Linux-based operating systems tend to use the BSD family of printing tools. lprNG contains /usr/sbin/lpd /usr/sbin/lpf /usr/sbin/lpbanner /usr/sbin/readfilecount /usr/sbin/removeoneline /usr/sbin/authenticate_pgp /usr/sbin/setupauth /usr/sbin/lpc /usr/bin/lpq /usr/bin/lprm /usr/bin/lpr /usr/bin/checkpc /usr/bin/lpraccnt /usr/bin/lp /usr/bin/lpstat /usr/bin/cancel and is under GPL. (pr is of course in GNU textutils.) > Archiving utilities - cpio, pax, tar > Divergence: UNIX98 marks cpio and tar as legacy and pax as mandatory. LSB > marks cpio and tar as mandatory and makes pax optional. > Rationale: Both tar and cpio are widely used in current package formats for > Linux-based operating systems (cpio being used by RPM and tar being used by > basically all software distribution). Debian seems to use the OpenBSD pax. MfG Kai
