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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
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Date: 29 Jul 92 23:29:35 GMT
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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
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Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are
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