[comp.sys.hp] Standard utilities for HP-UX

brad@sics.se (Brad Smith) (03/20/90)

Has anyone ported utilities like arp, vmstat, uudecode/encode, etc to HP-UX?
If so would it be possible to get the diffs to the source, or include files
needed to get distributed BSD source to compile on the HP's (assuming this
isn't a breach of whatever copyright laws are out there...)?  Does anyone
know HP's rational for not including these utilities (there are others that
aren't included, like troff, that I don't understand either)?

Brad Smith
Unix Systems Manager
brad@imhfhp14.epfl.ch

markf@hpupnja.HP.COM (Mark Fresolone) (03/28/90)

Regarding the absence of certain utilities in HP-UX...

Vmstat appears in the standard HP-UX product.
(HP-UX hpupnja A.B7.00 U 9000/835 14988)

Regarding troff, I have been told over the years that since there are
several third parties who have well differentiated (i.e. feature-rich)
implementations of troff most or all supporting HP operating systems and
peripherals, there was no point in supporting it.  I'm just a field lacky,
though...

#include <disclaimer.h>
Mark Fresolone