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Date:      Fri, 17 Jan 1997 09:06:23 +1100
From:      Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
To:        Jean-Henri Duteau <jeand@myrias.com>
Cc:        emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Emulation of HP-UX or A*X? 
Message-ID:  <199701162206.JAA26525@nemeton.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <xktvi8xo1ta.fsf@sparcbhl.Myrias.AB.CA> 

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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





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