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From: liam@durie.wanganui.gen.nz (Liam Greenwood)
Subject: Re: I hope this won't ignite a major flame war, but I've got to know!
Message-ID: <1994Jul24.094548.2640@durie.wanganui.gen.nz>
Organization: It's Home, really...
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 1994 09:45:48 GMT
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Peter da Silva (peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM) wrote:
> In article <30ntmh$642@apollo.west.oic.com>,
> Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.west.oic.com> wrote:
> >    What it comes down to is the user interface... for the most part,
> >    system utilities such as 'ps' use BSD style options.

> Why do people like the BSD ps options? There's no way to restrict the list,
'cause 'ps -alx' is burnt into my fingers.  If I type ps the -alx follows, 
then I remember it's a Sys V machine and it's ^H^H^Hef time.