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From: Steve Cole <coles@post.kosone.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Solaris vs SunOs
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 10:13:43 -0400
Organization: Kingston Online Services
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To: James L Fox <jlfox+@pitt.edu>
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On 19 Aug 1996, James L Fox wrote:
> would someone please convince me that Solaris will provide me
> with much more than the JOY of converting all of my incompatable
> shell scripts. (Like all the ones that use 'ps'.)
Put /usr/ucb early in your path and most of the commands (ps, etc) will
behave the way you expect them to in a BSD world.
Cheers,
Steve |President & Systems Administrator, Kingston Online Services
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