Re: [TUHS] A/UX [was Linux is on-topic]

Oh, I remember the Smitty person running at the top that would fall down when the command failed. Good times. -LC$ On Aug 12, 2020, at 11:15 PM, Grant Taylor via TUHS &lt;tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org&gt; wrote: On 8/12/20 7:47 PM, Larry McVoy wrote: My recollection is that smit(ty) did /not/ show you the commands that would be run /by/ /default/. That being said, there was a (P)F key you could press prior to executing, one of the many (P)F keys smit(ty) used, that would show you the command and all of it's arguments which would be run. I didn't like /using/ smit(ty) for much. But I did find it /useful/ for learning things which I didn't know by using the menu a few times and analyzing the command(s) that it would generate and run. I think it was a really advanced form of "<bla> command example" searches that I see people doing on the regular. The BIG advantage is that you used the menu interface to tweak parameters for your configuration. smit(ty) also had the added advantage that it could look up possible values of things to put in the fields for you. I don't know any seasoned AIX admins that use smit(ty) for their day to day, week to week, or even month to month activities. Though I think many of them end up using smit(ty) once every year or two to look at a particularly obtuse command. Sort of like a contextual aware man page. -- Grant. . . . unix || die