[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Bob Koehler]

In article <b6afg9-723.ln1 at news1.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> 
> And in the same section of documentation it recommended that you should 
> write DCL procedures using fuller verbs, to avoid breakage if hat 4 
> character limit got raised.

   Been there, done that.  Inherited an application written under VMS
   2, where the build files were DCL scripts full of "$F/L filename".

   Guess how broke that got under 3.0.

> 
> Some time ago I came across an article describing why you should use
> "ps ax" instead of "ps -ax".  In spite of that you still see examples 
> recommending "ps -ax" all over the internet.

   Like all things UNIX, that depends.  ps takes very different flags
   on SysV than BSD.  ps -aux on BSD was my favorite.  ps -efl I think
   was as close as I could get on SysV.  Many ps (gnu?) take SysV when
   - is present and BSD when it is not.

   So the Internet is right.  And wrong.