AIX vs standard unix

[System Admin Mike Peterson]

In article <30757 at hydra.gatech.EDU> richd at prism.gatech.EDU (Richard Dellaripa) writes:
>jsalter at ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com writes:
>
>>I don't understand.  Just add a stanza in /etc/xlf.cfg, and make a link
>>from /bin/f77 to /bin/xlf, and now you have a f77.  If you want to get into
>>the deeper aspects of why xlf isn't the 4.3 BSD f77, you'll have to fight
>>it out with one of the compiler folks.
>
>If it's so easy to do (and I don't see why it wouldn't be), why didn't
>IBM do it themselves? This illustrates the major problem I personally
>have with AIX...its developers seemed to have often changed things from
>the de facto Un*x standards for no (percieved at least) real reason.

This is of course exactly what we did, ONCE WE FIGURED OUT WHAT HAD TO
BE DONE. I agree 100% with Richard Dellaripa's comments.
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Mike Peterson, System Administrator, U/Toronto Department of Chemistry
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