always the same troubles with DEC: curses vs. cursesX
System Janitor
hubcap at hubcap.clemson.edu
Sat Feb 9 01:23:31 AEST 1991
* I'm very unhappy with the philosophy DEC takes with their ULTRIX line of
* UNIX... The problem with DEC seems to be their willingness to create
* propriatary variants of otherwise established defacto standards.
I feel this way too sometimes (mail11's SMTP ``enhancements'', arrrgggghhhh),
but...
* * when I expect to get a bourne shell like I get it on any of the
* other machines that I'm working on (HP,SUN,IX,NCR,...), I only get
* a partial solution and I have to figure out myself, that there is
* in fact a beast called 'sh5' that would be more standard.
... the comments in the source to /bin/sh indicate that it is indeed
Steven Bourne's. So while it may be fair to say that /bin/sh is not as
up-to-date as some other sh's you are used to, it doesn't look to me
as if DEC has spooged on it much.
-Mike
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