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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...
> 
> we got a new IBM machine. PowerPC, latest version AIX.
> 
> no man pages.

BS.

> 
> I mean, the OS comes with the manpages PRINTED IN BOOKS. no man FILES.

BS again.

> 
> 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.
> 
> 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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