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Article #209Re: AIX - How is it? (Summary - long)
From: Dennis Paul Fleming
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 1989 01:52
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 1989 01:52
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In article <977@ks.UUCP> drake@ibmarc.UUCP (Sam Drake) writes: >In article <12938@well.UUCP> gors@well.UUCP (Gordon Stewart) writes: >> >>I especially don't like that they've changed the name of some common >>commands (if you use AIX, you know which ones) and added multi-letter >>command-line options -- a clear poke in the eye to System V, which >>actually has STANDARDS about commands and options. > >Can someone give me an example or two of each of these? What command >names are non-standard in AIX/RT 2.2.1? What commands have multi-letter >command line options? The two most frustrating in my experience where telnet (called tn in AIX) and ftp (given the name xftp) Why IBM would shorten one command name and lengthen the other is beyond me. the print command has several multi-letter command line options: -bp, -ca, etc.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!pacbell!ames!rex!ukma!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!usc!ucla-cs!uci-ics!orion.cf.uci.edu!balboa!fleming From: fleming@balboa (Dennis Paul Fleming) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: AIX - How is it? (Summary - long) Message-ID: <2461@orion.cf.uci.edu> Date: 5 Aug 89 01:52:05 GMT References: <557@limbic.UUCP> <29176@beta.lanl.gov> <972@ks.UUCP> <12938@well.UUCP> <977@ks.UUCP> Sender: news@orion.cf.uci.edu Reply-To: fleming@balboa.UUCP (Dennis Paul Fleming) Distribution: comp Organization: EE Dept., University of California, Irvine Lines: 21