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Re: Somewhat off-topic, but hard to find better portability people.
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: Somewhat off-topic, but hard to find better portability people. |
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Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:00:41 +0200 |
address@hidden (Peter Seebach) wrote:
...
> The sort of rough cutoff I picked, perhaps arbitrarily, was "systems with Y2K
> fixes". So, Solaris 2+, but not Solaris 1/SunOS 4.
>
> I've been getting utterly stunned pretty regularly throughout. The only
> system I've found so far, other than embedded systems (hi, busybox!), which
> doesn't have printf(1) either in the shell or in the default $PATH, is SunOS
> 4 -- which I'm willing to mention once and then ignore at this point.
Right. SunOS4 is most definitely no longer on the list of
"reasonable portability targets". Good riddance ;-)
Re: Somewhat off-topic, but hard to find better portability people., James Youngman, 2008/09/18