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From: ckane@sunset.ece.uiuc.edu (Chuck Kane)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: I hope this wont ignite a major flame war, but Ive got to know!
Date: 26 Jul 1994 04:36:45 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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davis@blackmoor (Jonathan A. Davis) writes:
>After nearly 3 years of AIX system administration I'm *still* not sure what
>flavor of Unix it is. (the word "Unix" in this case is used very loosely)
It is an odd beast, but does have some very nice features:
For printers, it uses something very much like /etc/printcap on BSD
systems (except AIX calls it /etc/qconfig). I find lpd/lpr easier to
configure and use than lpsched/lp.
As for as ps goes, AIX supports system V options (ps -ef) and
BSD options ("ps aux") -- depending on whether you use the '-' or not.
This seems like a wonderful solution. Does {Free,Net}BSD do this? Can it?
-- Chuck