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 > > PGP: 8A48 EF36 5E9F 4EDA 5A8C 11B4 26F9 01F1 27AF AECB