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Xref: sserve comp.unix.user-friendly:2789 comp.unix.solaris:21787 comp.unix.programmer:19557 comp.unix.misc:13650 comp.unix.aux:15179 comp.unix.bsd:14723 comp.unix.aix:43124 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!haven.umd.edu!umd5.umd.edu!not-for-mail From: brewer@hamlet.umd.edu (Peter Brewer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.user-friendly,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.aux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: xargs and alias commands Date: 26 Aug 1994 17:04:20 -0400 Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 45 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <33llck$p1h@hamlet.umd.edu> References: <33af70$8rd@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <3552@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov> <33l6j0$jii@hamlet.umd.edu> <3554@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: hamlet.umd.edu In article <3554@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov>, Jim Jagielski <jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote: >brewer@hamlet.umd.edu (Peter Brewer) writes: > >>In article <3552@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov>, >>Jim Jagielski <jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote: >>> > >Well, I'm the kinda guy that things of cars as bucket seats with various >extensions (like engines, wheels, brakes, etc...) :) :) :) > >Of course, SysV has had their share of Good Unix Extensions additions >such as Streams, multiple run-states (init), HDB UUCP... and I like >'lp' over 'lpr'. True enough. Although I much prefer the earlier version of streams found under Apollo Aegis. > >Of course, we can also blame BSD for sendmail, and rlogin, etc... :) > Consider the 'web', the undirected graph which has now become several forests called the Internet. Given all of the possible routes and addresses sendmail must be considered a brilliant invention despite its complexity. Without it there would be no Usenet, no Internet, no Information Highway. I guess you have to have a 'degree' in regular expression parsing to really understand it. I've always been kinda partial to it because it has always gotten the job done with less muss and fuss. Smail has always been a way to keep track of the huge myriad of uucp addresses but not a replacement for sendmail which handles multiple mailers, networks, and address schemes. >Me? Well, my 1st inclination is 'ps -efl' and not 'ps -aux'... Most probably >always will be ;) Can't blame you for that. :-) >-- > | Jim Jagielski | jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov | V: 301 286-5964 | -- SAVE Mac Desktop Unix! Tell Apple to continue A/UX! Don't Let It Happen Again!-> "Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac (and nobody cares about it)." -- Bill Joy 6/21/85 ********* Peter W. Brewer brewer@umd5.umd.edu **********************