Peter Shoults wrote: > > > Kevin Crowe wrote: >> >>> You know what I'm going to say ... file RFEs (but please not 'make >>> MDB like >>> scat'). It's unfortunate that we have some divided effort on two >>> tools that do >>> essentially the same thing. 'mdb' is what's shipped with Solaris and >>> we really >>> should try and look at making it so that more people can use it easily. >> > > Geez, I have been holding back making comments on this several times, > but think I just have to say my piece. > > Yeah, mdb is shipped, but Scat/fm is available for download from > www.sun.com, so it is sorta a moot point.
It is? A customer has a panic on install. I can tell him exactly how to use mdb. How do I tell him how to use Scat? > It is sorta like the argument over which is > better, vi and emacs. I HATE vi, and only use it under extreme > circumstances. It *is* sorta like that. vi is always available. emacs is only available on machines *I* control, which is a long way from the number of machines I have to edit on...hence, years and years ago, I decided that vi was the only sane solution.
