John Kendall wrote: > My goal was to bring up the differences between Solaris cut and gnu cut > and hear the justification. And I've learned a lot. I've been in the > Solaris gated community for so long, imagine how much I have never > had to think about!
At one time I was exactly the same way after years of using HP-UX! :-) Well... Maybe not because there were always other machines in the mix too. > But it was never my intention to have you solve the re-write for me. I > only shared my code because Bob asked. But I really appreciate you > solving it for me! > > Thanks again to all of you. Thanks for the sharing. As I said I was curious as to the code issue that was problematic for portability. I already knew it wasn't portable or it wouldn't have been a squeaky wheel. So seeing something unportable was simply expected. And I will speak for the group and say you are most welcome. We do this because if you set a tangled ball of string in front we would untangle it. It is just our nature. Bob