______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: "make"ing MPE programmers Posix portable :-) Author: Eric Schubert <[log in to unmask]> at HMS-Internet Date: 5/19/95 9:03 AM Charge: After reading books on Posix programming - browsing Shell and Utilities guides and make books - my head aches. There is one overall lacking feature in all these books (that I learned in marketing 101): "Customer will retain squat unless related to something familiar." I would like to start a two column thread - MPE on one side - Posix on the other. The idea is to list a well known MPE command or function and map that into the Posix equivalent. OK, lets start simple - common everyday things. This could get quite large but it would be useful for first timers (probably need combinations of shell commands to equivalent most MPE commands). MPE: SH.HPBIN.SYS -L (POSIX): ----- ------ CHGROUP pub cd ../PUB SHOWME pwd, who, ??? COPY filea,fileb (filea is FILEA) cp FILEA FILEB (filea _is_not_ FILEA) EDIT vi SHOWJOB who PRINT more LISTF @ ls -lsa LISTF @.@ ls -R ECHO print, echo FILE ??? BUILD ??? REDO r SHOWME whoami or who am i Ok, my watch says 5:00pm - anybody please feel free to add your favorites (you're right - I'm starting a group effort here). Lets not get into subsystems like vi for now (chapters). Any pointers to other sources along these lines very welcome! -------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric J. Schubert Administrative Information Services Senior Data Base Analyst University of Notre Dame, IN USA Email: [log in to unmask] Phone: (219) 631-7306 World Wide Web: http://www.nd.edu/~eschuber