Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!think!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!hoptoad!gnu From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE READ THIS IF YOU WISH TO POST Message-ID: <2402@hoptoad.uucp> Date: Sun, 12-Jul-87 19:53:16 EDT Article-I.D.: hoptoad.2402 Posted: Sun Jul 12 19:53:16 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 13-Jul-87 05:07:26 EDT References: <1596@sfsup.UUCP> Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco Lines: 11 mpl@sfsup.UUCP (Mike Lindner) wrote: > PLEASE! Before you post, THINK! MINIX is based on AT&T's version 7 UNIX(R), > NOT on BSD4.* or System V. DON'T tell me MINIX is broken... Well, Minix is "V7 system call compatible". However, the utilities and libraries are way below V7 standard. Look at the tar command, for example, or standard I/O. Somebody remarked that it was a lot more like V6 as far as utilities go. -- {dasys1,ncoast,well,sun,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@postgres.berkeley.edu Alt.all: the alternative radio of the Usenet.