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Rosetta Stone for Unix

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Re: Rosetta Stone for Unix

#3

Post by acomjean »

as someone who worked in an hpux and solaris (and a little AIX) shop, writing code with a fair number of system calls on these systems, brings back memories and not good ones.

Subtle differences in the way everything was done. slight difference like: the max size of a udp packet was slightly smaller on hpux (or was it solaris) such that things would break in unexpected ways. The gzip or tar params where all slightly off... You got used to it but it was a pain.

This reminds me why linux was ascendant. I'm not sure its better but much more consistent.

Re: Rosetta Stone for Unix

#5

Post by teddyh »

acomjean wrote: post #3

as someone who worked in an hpux and solaris (and a little AIX) shop, writing code with a fair number of system calls on these systems, brings back memories and not good ones. Subtle differences in the way everything was done. slight difference like: the max size of a udp packet was slightly smaller on hpux (or was it solaris) such that things would break in unexpected ways. The gzip or tar params where all slightly…

The gzip parameters should be identical, since all implementations are the GNU one. The compress program, on the other hand…

EDIT: My information was obsolete – apparently some BSD’s reimplemented gzip. I stand corrected.

Re: Rosetta Stone for Unix

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Post by falcolas »

nonissue420 wrote: post #4

Rosetta Stone is a copyrighted software app to teach you foreign languages. You must be thinking of a cheat sheet. Nothing in the link helps you 'compare languages'.

Actually, the Rosetta stone is a historical artifact which had the same text written in several languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone

So this link does qualify as a sort of Rosetta Stone.

Re: Rosetta Stone for Unix

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Post by abrowne »

nonissue420 wrote: post #4

Rosetta Stone is a copyrighted software app to teach you foreign languages. You must be thinking of a cheat sheet. Nothing in the link helps you 'compare languages'.

The Rosetta Stone is a stone, found near Rosetta, Egypt, with an inscription in three scripts (Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic, and Ancient Greek), which led to the modern decipherment of the hieroglyphs.

Re: Rosetta Stone for Unix

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Post by chias »

teddyh wrote: post #5
acomjean wrote: post #3

as someone who worked in an hpux and solaris (and a little AIX) shop, writing code with a fair number of system calls on these systems, brings back memories and not good ones. Subtle differences in the way everything was done. slight difference like: the max size of a udp packet was slightly smaller on hpux (or was it solaris) such that things would break in unexpected ways. The gzip or tar params where all slightly…

The gzip parameters should be identical, since all implementations are the GNU one. The compress program, on the other hand… EDIT: My information was obsolete – apparently some BSD’s reimplemented gzip. I stand corrected.

unless different OSes provide different versions.
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