I. Szczesniak writes: > sorry state of these tools, including ksh, is the reason why we're > close to drop Solaris support from our products. Whatever standard > forces Sun to ship a disaster like /usr/bin/tr which is not even > capable of handling Asian characters or the EURO currency symbol > should be dropped from the distribution.
Please check the subject line again. This PSARC case describes a change to 'xargs.' It has nothing to do with tr, ksh, or any other utility in Solaris. This isn't the right place to complain about those "disasters." > I think that Solaris needs a modernisation project to rework the base > tooling and applications. opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org would be a good place to propose such a project, and to discuss the proposed scope. This isn't that mailing list. -- James Carlson, KISS Network <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
