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Peter, On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Peter W. Draper wrote: > that all sounds like very useful advice, if I ever (or JAC) get back to > OSX. One further thought I had after reading your messages yesterday is > that perhaps OSX looks more Solaris (System V) like than Linux-like, in > which case I may have got better service working from the Solaris variant, > rather than the Linux one (saw gcc, thought Linux was a good starting > point)... I get confused at all this. I thought that SunOS 1-4 was very BSD-ish, and that it started to get SYSV-ish features with SunOS5/Solaris. Linux, I thought, wasn't anything in particular, but was more SYSV-ish than not. OS X, however, is pure 4.4BSD/FreeBSD. Thus the Solaris version might indeed be a better place to start from, simply because it's BSD-ish SunOS, rather than because it's SYSV-ish Solaris. I'm not sure if the diagram on <http://www.levenez.com/unix/> backs this up or not! Just by the way, to dispel some social anxiety, do you know whether One is supposed to pronounce it `sys-vee', `sys-five' or `system-five' -- I worry about these things. I do know it's supposed to be `oh-ess-ten' rather than `oh-ess-ex'. Stop laughing! I'm neurotic. Norman -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Norman Gray http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK [log in to unmask]