SCO doesn't sell UNIX

[Tim Wright]

In <1990Dec07.214859.641 at digibd.com> rhealey at digibd.com (Rob Healey) writes:
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>	You're waiting for SVR4, it'll be a MAJOR change from what you're
>	used to and there is ALOT of new things to learn for system admin's
>	and advanced users. If you think sysadmsh was "fun", wait till you
>	see R4's equiv! Filesystem reorganization will be another fun change!
>	And you can FORGET about online man pages... You also get the
>	joys of following symlinks to symlinks to symlinks to ...


The AT&T FACE (Framed Access Command Environment) seems to make a quite
decent SysAdmin interface - what's your problem with it ? If you want
to do things by hand, there's still nothing to stop you.
Why can you forget about online man pages ? That is vendor dependent, not
OS release dependent. As a counter-example, Dell ship full online man pages.
Finally, as has already been pointed out, the filesystem reorganisation can
largely be ignored due to symbolic links. The reorganisation was not done
just to be awkward. It is far better suited to running in a networked
environment and allows for such interesting features as a read-only root
filesystem. Where do you get to follow symlinks to symlinks ... I don't think
the base system has any double symlinks (somebody will doubtless correct me),
and if you're stupid enough to create lots yourself ... :-)

Tim
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