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- From: wtm@uhura.neoucom.edu (Bill Mayhew)
- Subject: Re: Planning to upgrade to Solaris 2? (re: unbundling again)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.030224.7415@uhura.neoucom.edu>
- Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
- References: <1992Jul20.020258.10930@uhura.neoucom.edu> <1992Jul20.143328.1962@bradley.bradley.edu> <14f249INNl4s@early-bird.think.com>
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 03:02:24 GMT
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- In article <14f249INNl4s@early-bird.think.com> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
- >
- >They can't unbundle things like awk/sed/grep. Many of the standard
- >commands are written as shell scripts, and use these heavily.
-
- Heck, just unbundle the system administration kit. Time for a new
- subsidiary, SunAdmin. This would be follwing along the heels of
- one of peviously mentioned fustian analogies to DOS unbundling.
- After all, DOS has the Norton, Mace, PC Tools et al admin-like kits
- for taming DOS for average users. We can have this for Solaris
- too, if we demand it. :-) Perhaps awk will be replaced by a
- scripting language named after a bombastic magazine columnist
- instead of the somewhat arbitrary construction of forming the
- program's name from the actual authors' initials.
-
- Those of us grizzled AT&T (sometimes forced) purchasers learned the
- joys of unbundling Unix parts some time ago.
-
- (Yes, I know Norton Utilities for Unix exists.)
-
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