From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tfb@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw) Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 15:59:22 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] dmr note on BSD's sins In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <93E87A49-523F-4BCE-9D89-E62351410A8C@tfeb.org> On 3 May 2017, at 14:41, Nemo wrote: > > Along these lines, who said "Cat went to Berkely, came back waving flags." And anyone who lived through the SunOS 4 -- SunOS 5 transition will know that some of those Berkeley flags (not specifically for cat, but almost certainly including those for cat) were really quite useful. I remember spending really a long time finding and building BSD/GNU versions of utilities which actually had the options you needed on early SunOS 5 machines: later on Sun themselves put some of them back.