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peter@xxxxxxx.xxx (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> I guess the issue with trying to move Tru64 utilities to HP-UX is that
>> Tru64 is, or was, OSF based rather than SysV,
>
> Absolutely not. OSF/1 requires a System V license, and every one of the
> utilities in question are BSD-licensed anyway.
I have it on good authority that the HP-UX shell utilities are
deliberately frozen in their archaic state, because management is
terrified of breaking their customers' dusty decks^H^H^H^H^Hshell
scripts. HP's obsession with backward compatibility is frightening;
we are talking here about an operating system that only enforces the
CPU-time ulimit against executables linked with
/usr/lib/hpux{32,64}/unix95.o. Which is not the default, nor was it
done to most of the system binaries. Hate.
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