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ArrrrrrrrrrrrghIX




sorry for this post, I need to let off steam...

we got a new IBM machine. PowerPC, latest version AIX.

no man pages.

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

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.

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!