Don't strip /xenix (the w command complains)

[G. Simon Gales]

In article <1991Jan12.235536.12144 at xrtll.uucp> silver at xrtll.UUCP (Hi Ho Silver) writes:
>In comp.unix.xenix.sco, grwalter at wcbcs.uucp (Fred Walter) typed:
>$In a previous article I asked why I shouldn't strip /xenix.... I just found
>$out. At least one command (w - it complains with "can't find namelist" or
>$some such thing) doesn't like it.
>
>   ps also won't like you, and that's a pretty important command (if you
>don't believe me, take a look through /etc/shutdown).  In fact, anything
>that needs to look at the process table will probably break if you strip
>/xenix.
>-- 

In my xenix 286 2.2.3 system, there's a 'strip xenix' in the kernal
makefile.  

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                    Simon Gales at The University of Kentucky
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