On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, James B. Byrne wrote:

> 4.      For some reason,  the secondary entry points into system utilities
> like ls are not supported.  Even if I create a symbolic link like ll
> to ls, the utility does not recognize that the alternate invocation
> has been used and displays data in the raw ls format.  This seems to
> me to be rather odd behaviour and I was wondering if anyone could
> explain it to me.

 It is my understanding that functionality such as ll is non-standard.
Under Unix the first parm sent to a program is the name that was entered
at the command prompt.  If you are a C programmer you are familiar with
the argv, argc command line argument parsing.  In this case argv[0] comes
through to the program as the command that was used launch the program.

 Certain versions of 'ls' have been modified to understand that when they
are called as 'll' they should assume it to mean 'ls -l'.

> 5.      Can one of you gentlemen or ladies tell me where the default
> .profile and .exrc files are kept?  I cannot seem to be able to
> locate them using find / -name .profile .  It seems that manager.sys
> is set up with some form of default for these  but that no other user
> has it.  Can one set up a .profile for an account?

 The system profile is located in /etc/profile... personal profiles need
to exist in a persons logon group.account... for ALTONJ.DEV my profile is
/DEV/ALTONJ/.profile.


> 9.      Lastly, does anyone know of a browser that supports printed web
> documents by selection and or page rather than dumping the whole
> thing?  I would rather not have to write a java page sever just to
> get this functionality since it will be used so infrequently, and I
> am notoriously lazy.

 None that I am aware of...

Good Luck,
Jim
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