Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:21:28 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp' Message-ID: <20060731232128.GL96589@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <ealuu3$6a8$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <17614.4005.407223.621637@bhuda.mired.org> <44CE199C.2020500@centtech.com> <17614.8289.134373.387558@bhuda.mired.org> <96b30c400607310847s1d2f845eo212b234d03f51e9a@mail.gmail.com> <20060731172858.GA84042@megan.kiwi-computer.com> <44CE40EA.5080009@centtech.com> <20060731184454.GA84483@megan.kiwi-computer.com> <ealr31$q1b$1@sea.gmane.org> <20060731213109.GA85795@megan.kiwi-computer.com> <ealuu3$6a8$1@sea.gmane.org>
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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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