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<<On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 03:13:30 +0200, Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net> said:

> some of the possible approaches are :

> 1) a la HPUX : use an environment variable (UNIX95) to deal w/ some standard.
> 2) a la Tru64 or AIX : BSD options aren't dash (-) prefixed.
> 3) a la SunOS : use different commands located in different paths.
> 4) yet another approach : use a different command name to deal w/ some standard.
> 5) try to merge BSD and System V options. in my opinion, this is really
> possible except by breaking the former or the later standard since
> similar options may behave differently such as -u (different meaning)
> or -j (different output).
> 6) use a command line option to switch from one or the other behaviour.

7) Ignore the losing System V `ps' and leave well enough alone.  We
have a `ps' that works, behaves the way users expect it, and has never
in its history accepted System V options.

-GAWollman


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