> The resources Sun allocates to do miscellaneous tool support pretty
> much just suck. Solaris "patch", for instance, can't handle
> slashes in filenames, and IIRC can't even handle patches to
> multiple different files; their diff is incapable of applying any
> sort of patch. Why didn't they just snag Larry Wall's patch and
> GNU diffutils?
We could ask the same of most vendors... clear, in most cases, the
GNU tools kick arse when compared to what the vendors have available.
I still have old SunOS machines with Sun sendmail on them about the
place, scary stuff thats soon to become SparcLinux+vmailer. (Oh, and
these machines are all behind firewalls or packet filters of some
description, because they have to be to make them nice 'net
citizens).
-cw
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