POSIX bashing

[Michael Meissner]

In article <111 at imsdx3.UUCP> chris at imsdx3.UUCP (Chris Ott) writes:

|   1) Symbolic links. C'mon guys, how hard can this be to implement?

I was working with a UNIX vendor that did this, and it was painful to
get all of the commands modified to support symlinks correctly.

|   2) Reasonably long filenames. Yes, I know 14 characters is "standard"
|      System V, but gimme a break. I don't think you need to go all out
|      and allow 255 characters like BSD, but you've added extenstions
|      anyway. At least allow 30 or 40 characters.

Again, you have to go through the commands.  Not all of the original
System V (III, 7) commands used appropriate include files.  Many
'knew' about 14.  You can't even grep for 14, you also have to look
for 13 and 15.
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Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?