From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Jan 16 14:16:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA17372 for emulation-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 14:16:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from perki0.connect.com.au (perki0.connect.com.au [192.189.54.85]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id OAA17339 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 14:16:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from Unemeton@localhost) by perki0.connect.com.au id JAA11037 (8.7.6h/IDA-1.6); Fri, 17 Jan 1997 09:15:45 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: perki0.connect.com.au: Unemeton set sender to giles@nemeton.com.au using -f >Received: from localhost.nemeton.com.au (localhost.nemeton.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by nemeton.com.au (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id JAA26525; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 09:06:24 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <199701162206.JAA26525@nemeton.com.au> To: Jean-Henri Duteau cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Emulation of HP-UX or A*X? In-reply-to: Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 09:06:23 +1100 From: Giles Lean Content-Type: text Sender: owner-emulation@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 16 Jan 1997 12:30:25 -0700 Jean-Henri Duteau wrote: > For instance, how would you remotely run a command on another machine. > If you answered RSH, you lose. It's REMSH on HPUX. Yuck!!! Nah, they just chose to prefer SysV appearance to BSD when there was a conflict, and both had commands named 'rsh'. SCO mad a similar choice; other vendors said "SysV loses". I guess you fall into the "the hell with SysV" camp. :-) Giles