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Re: ArrrrrrrrrrrrghIX
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Ira Abramov wrote:
Sorry to break this to you, but here goes:
>
> sorry for this post, I need to let off steam...
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> we got a new IBM machine. PowerPC, latest version AIX.
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> no man pages.
BS.
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> I mean, the OS comes with the manpages PRINTED IN BOOKS. no man FILES.
BS again.
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> then I have to fight the stupid ksh (standard shell on AIX I guess). I
> learned ksh, and I know the differences between the linux' pdksh and the
> real one, this AIX ksh behaves even LESS like ksh than pdksh does!
>
> so I tried csh or tcsh, they both ignored the PATH variable (you read
> correctly). I went back to ksh after typing /bin/ls for the tenth time.
BS again.
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> now I'm compiling egcs, then RCS, then perl...
>
>
> to sum it up: it's worse than Sloaris. thank god for linux distribution
> designers, who put the right things in and make the OS usable! Thanks
> Redhat, and thank you Patrick Volkerding!
Rather not. AIX 4.1.5 and up (4.2/4.2.1/4.3) is a good operating system, a
very stable one, and the only thing one needs is to know how to install it
properly (reminds me of Debian).
--Ariel
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