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From: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
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On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Stephen McKay wrote:

SM>I'm happy for users to get whatever they like as long as use in scripts is
SM>completely predictable.  Personally, I like it when "ps axl" and "ps -ef"
SM>do magic based on the hyphen.  That's not a hidden variable though.

While that's doable for ps it does not work for ls and other utilities.
What whould be nice to have is a mechanism that allows us to make more of our
utilites posix conform without breaking BSD support.

harti