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

Michael Parson mparson at bl.org
Fri Sep 4 00:10:45 AEST 2020


On 2020-08-31 16:12, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2020, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:
> 
>>> The SMIT I had did*not*  show you what files it was editing
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> It's possible that the system in question was set up by my
> predecessor; my basic job was to maintain a rather large application
> on it and the other boxen (financial/sales/factory/etc, all in one);
> this was many years ago.
> 
> Never heard of "smitty".

'smit' is the X11 GUI, 'smitty' is the text TUI (play on 'smit' + 
'tty').

IIRC, if you had $DISPLAY set, 'smit' would present the GUI version, if
not, it would automagically call 'smitty' for you.

-- 
Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
KF5LGQ


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