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- From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: I wonder, did AT&T backstab BSDI?
- Keywords: AT&T speculation lawsuit BSDI
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.232935.5130@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 23:29:35 GMT
- References: <1992Jul28.153750.8395@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1992Jul29.144859.8222@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> <1992Jul29.182141.10399@prism.poly.edu>
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- From the keyboard of kapela@prism.poly.edu (Theodore S. Kapela):
- :SVR4 is System V, Release 4. System 7 was an early version of Unix
-
- Is it really? I thought you had to be SQUID compacent to be called
- Unix, and I don't think v7 is.
-
- :Actually, this would make "ps" *consistent* with other unix utilities. In
- :general, options are preceded by a dash, arguments to those options aren't.
-
- Not all others -- consider tar, ar, dump, restore, and dd.
-
- I think they should probably tolerate the minus, but it's frustrationg to
- *require* it when so many of us learned them the other way. I'm sure
- 1003.2 will "fix" all these for us, though.
-
- Now if only all programs would recognize '-' for input as stdin
- and for output to be stdout.
-
- --tom
- --
- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
- On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are
- created jerks.
- -- H. Allen Smith, "Let the Crabgrass Grow"
-