From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 20 21:29: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30C9737B401 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 21:29:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomts11-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts11.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12F3943E42 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 21:29:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([65.95.177.86]) by tomts11-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20020821042918.LRR1432.tomts11-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 00:29:18 -0400 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g7L3F9X53158; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 23:15:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <010f01c248cb$45534040$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Dan Nelson" , "Jerry McAllister" Cc: "Brian T. Schellenberger" , "bill" , References: <200208201640.28030.bts@babbleon.org> <200208202150.g7KLowj11390@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <20020820221951.GA86652@dan.emsphone.com> Subject: Re: help a poor refuge from SCO UNIX (SysV) Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 00:28:58 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Nelson" To: "Jerry McAllister" Cc: "Brian T. Schellenberger" ; "bill" ; 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