Re: Somewhat off-topic, but hard to find better portability people.

[Jim Meyering]

address@hidden (Peter Seebach) wrote:
...
> The sort of rough cutoff I picked, perhaps arbitrarily, was "systems with Y2K
> fixes".  So, Solaris 2+, but not Solaris 1/SunOS 4.
>
> I've been getting utterly stunned pretty regularly throughout.  The only
> system I've found so far, other than embedded systems (hi, busybox!), which
> doesn't have printf(1) either in the shell or in the default $PATH, is SunOS
> 4 -- which I'm willing to mention once and then ignore at this point.

Right.  SunOS4 is most definitely no longer on the list of
"reasonable portability targets".  Good riddance ;-)