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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!news.grnet.gr!btnet-feed2!unlisys!fu-berlin.de!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!news1.best.com!nntp1.best.com!usenet From: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: SunOS4.1.3 to Solaris2.5.1 Porting issues. Date: 16 Dec 1996 12:02:32 -0800 Organization: Polymorphous Thaumaturgy Lines: 23 Sender: bos@organon Distribution: inet Message-ID: <8720cqntpj.fsf@serpentine.com> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <57ik5l$12i$1@shade.twinsun.com> <x7917mx5gx.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> <57shh0$o3u@web.nmti.com> <58bdl4$g68@spitfire.ecsel.psu.edu> <58ccqm$q13@web.nmti.com> <58hj11$bb6@panix.com> <32ADB280.55AD@jpmorgan.com> <58m3ne$hju@innocence.interface-business.de> <casper.32afd36d@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <593j2l$efa@innocence.interface-business.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: organon.serpentine.com X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.33 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:92760 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1837 comp.unix.internals:11653 j> That's still no reason to not help your customers in a transition: j> provide a man page, and put it into libcompat.a. State this in the j> man page. This is all done. j> Or do you really believe that customers who have, heck!, _paid_ for j> your stuff should get their knowledge from Usenet, as opposed to j> the system's documentation? If the people in question actually read the system documentation, they might find the information they were looking for. If *you*, in your turn, troubled to read it, you would proesumably not be posting silly followups. <b -- Let us pray: What a Great System. bos@eng.sun.com Please Do Not Crash. bos@serpentine.com ^G^IP@P6 http://www.serpentine.com/~bos