Re: New Solaris 7 features

Dave Wreski (dave@nic.com)
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 19:58:46 -0500 (EST)

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> 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?

Not to mention the first thing any competent administrator does is download gzip
and bash. I also understand their LDAP, improved FTP server, SKIP, and news
servers are add-ons, as is their Windows support, on top of the $700 server OS
price.

Dave

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