Kyle McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One thing that may help is to prepend /usr/ucb to yout $PATH before
> /usr/bin. This will bring the Berkley UNIX flavor of many commands to
> the forefront. I think this will help because all the UNIX variants you
> list above (except Linux which isn't UNIX) are of the Berkley flavor -
Be extremely careful if you _really_ plan to do this. It will create you an
environment where you cannot compile anymore.
The UCB variant of the commands did not make it into the standard and
recent software will not compile in a UCB environment. At source level,
Linux does not use the UCB flavor.
> Solaris 2 switched sun to the System V flavor by default, and left the
> berkley flavor in /usr/ucb, and added one or more POSIX flavors too. I
This switch happened 18 years ago and it was also a result of the upcomming
POSIX standard (the first one has been approved in 1988).
> I can understand where Linux being the newcomer (albeit more than 15
> years old now,) seems to be the new and better way of doing things.
> How ever I've used several UNIX variants over the past 15+ years, and
> when you need to bounce between them often it's usually Linux that looks
> like the odd ball one doing things a different way.
Where do you believe is Linux better than other UNIX?
The strange observation with Linux is that e.g. the program "ifconfig"
on Linux has more deviations from the UNIX flavor than the program "ipconfig"
on MS-WIN.
> Don't be. Sharing is how we all learn. I made this BSD to SVR4 switch
> back in '94-'95. It was rough for me too ( I bet going back would be
> even tougher for me now.) That was when I was just starting to leave
I did it in 1992 and it was not a big change anyway. You basically have to
learn how to set up your login environment.
Jörg
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