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Re: tr portability
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: tr portability |
Date: |
Mon, 6 Oct 2008 21:49:49 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
Hi Eric,
* Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 02:15:58PM CEST:
> According to Ralf Wildenhues on 10/5/2008 5:31 AM:
> >
> > We never applied that, but we do recommend against several individual
> > utilities from that directory in the shell portability section. So I
> > think a warning for the end user is useful, too.
>
> Thanks for revisiting this old suggestion. Along the line of Andreas'
> comment, how about this? At which point, yes, please push.
>
> +On Solaris, don't put @code{/usr/ucb} early in your PATH. This
> +directory contains several dysfunctional programs; working variants
> +of these programs are available in @code{/usr/bin}. So, if you need
> address@hidden/usr/ucb} in your PATH, put it @emph{after} @code{/usr/bin}.
Done (with PATH put in @env), thanks.
Cheers,
Ralf