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From: tsarna@endicor.com (Ty Sarna)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: I hope this wont ignite a major flame war, but Ive got to know!
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Date: 26 Jul 94 20:08:19 GMT
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In article <3123st$bn8@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> ckane@sunset.ece.uiuc.edu (Chuck Kane) writes:
> davis@blackmoor (Jonathan A. Davis) writes:
> >After nearly 3 years of AIX system administration I'm *still* not sure what
> >flavor of Unix it is. (the word "Unix" in this case is used very loosely)
>
> It is an odd beast, but does have some very nice features:
>
> As for as ps goes, AIX supports system V options (ps -ef) and
> BSD options ("ps aux") -- depending on whether you use the '-' or not.
> This seems like a wonderful solution. Does {Free,Net}BSD do this? Can it?
Unfortunately that doesn't help those of us whoose brains are hardwired
to "ps -aux". I've even tried setting up aliases like "psaux" in the
past to do the right thing on each system, but I forget to use them.
Does POSIX specify what arguments ps is to take?
--
Ty Sarna "If at first you don't succeed...
tsarna@endicor.com ...don't try skydiving!!!