So, you're saying that with FreeBSD when you ask for more you get less.
Are you sure this isn't a government project?

Larry
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-
> linux.org] On Behalf Of Josh Paetzel
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 12:49 PM
> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Network debugging [OT for a long while now]
> 
> On Monday 28 July 2008 08:48:52 pm Florin Iucha wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 03:35:42PM -0500, Munir Nassar wrote:
> > > Troy.A Johnson wrote:
> > > >>>> Josh Paetzel <josh at tcbug.org> 7/28/2008 9:49 AM >>>
> > > >>
> > > >> On Monday 28 July 2008 07:25:51 pm John Hoffoss wrote:
> > > >> If it's any help, I don't take linux ( or most linux users )
> seriously
> > > >> either.
> > > >
> > > > With so many charming ambassadors like our friend Josh,
> > > > I wonder why the *BSDs aren't more popular. ;-)
> > >
> > > Because the BSD fundies take every opportunity to troll?  :)
> >
> > No, it's because they use vi and not vim!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > florin
> 
> Well, not to drift dangerously factual, but in one of the more popular
> BSDs,
> FreeBSD, /usr/bin/vi is really a hardlink to /usr/bin/nvi, /bin/sh is
> really
> ash, not even hard linked, just gratuitously renamed.  /bin/tcsh is a
> hardlink to /bin/csh but you get different behavior if you invoke it
as
> tcsh
> vs. csh.  awk in the base system is one-true-awk, but if you install
gnu
> awk
> from ports you end up with a binary called gawk.  grep in the base
system
> is
> gnu grep, but it's not called ggrep or gnugrep or anything like that.
> more
> is a hardlink to less, but you get traditional more behavior if you
invoke
> less as more instead of less.
> 
> I think my point is that even the most fearsome of luddites would find
a
> 70's
> era UNIX horribly unproductive and uncomfortable to use, and I
wouldn't
> let
> some hard core FreeBSD user bag on you cause he uses vi and you use
vim,
> or
> that his /bin/sh isn't really bash, unless of course he's bagging on
you
> cause vim and bash aren't actually backwards compatable with the
original
> tools....
> 
> --
> Thanks,
> 
> Josh Paetzel
> 
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