Whats Missing?

Jerry Berkman jerry at violet.berkeley.edu
Fri Sep 22 10:24:11 AEST 1989


In article <681 at orange19.qtp.ufl.edu> bernhold at orange19 (David E. Bernholdt) writes:
>In article <3199 at amelia.nas.nasa.gov> ciotti at orville.nas.nasa.gov (Robert B. Ciotti) writes:
>>If you had your wish, what would you add to UNICOS 5.0 
>>or what in your opinion is missing? 
>
>I definitely miss ranlib.  I guess this is because UniCOS is SysV
>based and just about everything else I run on is BSD based.
>Considering what it does, I could probably write one on my own.

Why?  "bld" seems to provide all the functionality of "ranlib".
In addition, each time you move a "ranlib" library, you have to
re-"ranlib" it; but you can move "bld" libraries.

	- Jerry Berkman, U.C.Berkeley



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