Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cithep.UucP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!escher!cithep!tim From: tim@cithep.UucP (Tim Smith ) Newsgroups: net.micro.att,net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: instability in Berkeley versus AT&T releases (absurdly long) Message-ID: <101@cithep.UucP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 02:15:59 EDT Article-I.D.: cithep.101 Posted: Fri Aug 9 02:15:59 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 02:32:39 EDT References: <2067@ucf-cs.UUCP> <363@cuae2.UUCP> <2423@sun.uucp> <5819@utzoo.UUCP> <349@phri.UUCP> <1227@sjuvax.UUCP> Organization: Caltech HEP, Pasadena, CA Lines: 22 Xref: linus net.micro.att:466 net.unix-wizards:11516 >> I would sure get upset if when I ran "ls" in the long skinny window >> on my DMD, it didn't print the file names one per line. You are > >Then why don't YOU alias "ls | cat" and let the majority of the world work. Ever used a windowing system in a bit mapped display? HE will be part of the majority, not you. >It's these weird variants put in for esoteric special cases that really >bugs me about SV. How many AT&T 7300s are going to benefit from SV accounting >stuff? Excuse me, but it is not AT&T that is putting in special cases! And why is accounting a special case? You are perfectly free to turn off and remove all accounting stuff from your 7300 ( This is complete speculation on my part, but they couldn't have shpxrq(ROT 13) it up THAT badly, could they? ) -- Multi-column output should be handled in the terminal driver, so all program will be able to use it. :-) Tim Smith ihnp4!{wlbr!callan,cithep}!tim