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From: Ling Wang <wang_ling@jpmorgan.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Solaris vs SunOs
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 09:47:04 -0400
Organization: JP Morgan
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Bryan Althaus wrote:
> 
> Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@FreeBSD.org) wrote:
> : James L Fox wrote:
> : > would someone please convince me that Solaris will provide me
> : > with much more than the JOY of converting all of my incompatable
> : > shell scripts. (Like all the ones that use 'ps'.)
> :
> : Having worked with both environments, I can only say that anyone trying
> : to convince you of this will only be trying to make you feel better. :-)
> 
> ATTENTION: UCB BSD is DEAD... SunOS 4.x is DEAD... move on to Solaris 2.x it's
> Sun's future, and SVR4 is SCO's and HP's future also.

I heard that everything that is in /usr/ucb will be move to
/bin or where ever if it does not clash with the SVR4 version
that already exist.