Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 00:28:58 -0400 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>, "bill" <bill@techservsys.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: help a poor refuge from SCO UNIX (SysV) Message-ID: <010f01c248cb$45534040$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <200208201640.28030.bts@babbleon.org> <200208202150.g7KLowj11390@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <20020820221951.GA86652@dan.emsphone.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>; "bill" <bill@techservsys.com>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 6:19 PM Subject: Re: help a poor refuge from SCO UNIX (SysV) > In the last episode (Aug 20), Jerry McAllister said: > > > On Tuesday 20 August 2002 11:03 am, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > | Note: some systems will process both BSD and SYSV ps arguments, > > > | depending on whether you start with a dash. To be safe, always > > > | leave the dash off when using BSD flags. "ps ax". > > > > > > Hmmm . . . but the FreeBSD man page documents using the dash for > > > the BSD options. It always makes mea little nervous to > > > deliberately depart from the man page. > > > > Use it the way the man page says. I don't understand that previous > > statement being so generalized or universally made. In my experience > > using the minus almost always works except for a couple of things and > > there seem to be plenty that are unfriendly without it. > > To be specific: Tru64 and Linux both process ps commandline arguments > this way. > > Linux: Unix options may be grouped and must be preceeded by a dash. > BSD options may be grouped and must not be used with a dash. > GNU long options are preceeded by two dashes. And at the risk of being a "me too" poster, so does AIX. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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