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Ivan Voras wrote this message on Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 00:07 +0200:
> older people who stick with what they know will work - vast majority of 
> younger admins I know either personally or on the 'net generally know 
> only Linux.
> 
> Using common options help bring people over, and also saves trouble with 
> porting shell script code :)

Helping people not be portable w/ other Unixes like Solaris is something
we should not do...  Can anyone name another major Unix besides Linux that
has the -a option?

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