On Sun, 16 Jun 2002 15:20:04 +1000 Matthew Hannigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is it called something else? For instance, the command to show shared > lib usage and other stuff on hp-ux is 'chattr'. Surely this is a > standard freebsd thing anyway?!? This is a standard GNU tool chain thing. The C compiler on OSX is GCC or rather Apple's hacked version of it. Who do Apple think they are second guessing the combined knowledge and experience of the GNU compiler and binutils people. > > > 2) sed is broken (in comparison to GNU sed and seemingly more than other > > unixen). The command line > > > > sed s/some pattern with spaces/xxx/ > > > > > > fails because the Mac sed is not smart enough to realise that the spaces > > are part of the pattern. > > Are you using quotes around that? I've never known a sed to > understand multiple args are a single expression. This was in a configure script. The configure script worked on Linux and failed on OSX. Placing double quotes around it made it work on both platforms. Yes it probably should have had double quotes all along but I expect few differences between unices. > > 3) The mv command does not allow the renaming of directories in place ie > > > > mv old_dir_name new_name > > What does freebsd do here? Really not sure. Anybody else? > I know that some Unixes or Unix-like > OS's (e.g. plan9? ) don't allow dir renaming because of race conditions. I can rename Desktop folder (directories) in the GUI but I can't at the command line. That has nothing to do with protecting from race conditions :-). > > 4) Speed. With the Aqua GUI and X running it certainly ain't fast, even with > > 256Meg of RAM. As soon as I get around to installing Linux on it I'll have > > something to compare it to. > > This'd be one of my main concerns. If it's behind the equivalently > priced Dell for instance now, what will it be like in a a year or so? Give me a week or so and I should get around to installing Linux on it. Thats would make for a very interesting comparison. > The other thing that concerns me is their jumping through hoops > to avoid putting metainfo in the name. It has to make it far more > complex to do porting and navigating files under the different > subsystems. Err, sorry, whats all this about? Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "These are the finest moments in (post)modern life, when satire is completly indistinguishable from reality... I usually have to rely on the presidential elections for such dada." -- frenomulax on Jesux a christian Linux distro. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
