gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) (08/02/88)
I guess a few of the "kludgy and obsolescent" BSD features left out of A/UX are reasonable file name length, fast file access, dbx, gprof, working compilers, reporting file system space in "Kbytes" rather than a mix of other units, an "ls" that fits on your screen, termcap/terminfo/vi that handle SIGWINCH, working nlist(), tar that matches other unix tar options, an "fsck -n" that will leave your disk alone, disk partitioning that's documented, TCP/IP that doesn't hang when the other end crashes, prof that will print function names longer than 8 characters, etc. > You can copy your /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.s file from a BSD > system over and it should just work fine. > Philip K. Ronzone A/UX System Architect > Apple Computer MS 27AJ 10500 N. DeAnza Blvd. Cupertino CA 95014 What Phil advocates here is in direct violation of your AT&T Unix license. -- John Gilmore {sun,pacbell,uunet,pyramid,amdahl}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@toad.com "And if there's danger don't you try to overlook it, Because you knew the job was dangerous when you took it"