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This appendix describes the differences between DIGITAL UNIX commands and ULTRIX commands. In some cases, the difference is that an ULTRIX command does not exist on a DIGITAL UNIX system. Other differences are caused by the options provided for a command being different or by some difference in the arguments to a command. For example, the DIGITAL UNIX command might expect a different name for a particular argument than the ULTRIX command. Some commands operate differently on DIGITAL UNIX systems than they do on ULTRIX systems.
To use the table in this appendix, look for the name of an ULTRIX command in the left-hand column of the table. Read the second column of the table to determine what difference exists between the DIGITAL UNIX and ULTRIX commands. Read the right-hand column to determine how to get the effect of the ULTRIX command on a DIGITAL UNIX system.
| ULTRIX Command | Differences on a DIGITAL UNIX System | Use this Instead |
2780d |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
2780e |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
3780d |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
adb |
Not supported. | Use the
dbx
debugger. |
addnode |
Not supported. | Supported in the DECnet/OSI for DIGITAL UNIX product. |
ansi_ps |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
arff |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
audgen |
Not supported. | Auditing not supported. |
auditd |
Not supported. | Auditing not supported. |
auditmask |
Not supported. | Auditing not supported. |
audit_tool |
Not supported. | Auditing not supported. |
backup |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
bad144 |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
biod |
Not supported. | Use the
nfsiod
command. |
bootparamd |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
catman |
The
catman
command automatically
processes source reference pages by using
tbl,
neqn, and
nroff -Tlp -h.
It does not process through
col.
The
catman
command formats reference pages for the generic
man/catman
device
-Tlp, which defaults to formatting for VT100
terminals rather than for the Teletype Model 37 terminal, which is not supported. |
Do not preprocess sources through
tbl
or
neqn
before placing them in
/usr/share/man/...
directories.
Postprocessing with
col
can be necessary for non-DIGITAL devices. |
|
Reference pages are formatted for online viewing rather than for printing, and are not paginated. These online formatted reference pages do not print correctly on hardcopy printers. No support is provided for non-DIGITAL devices except for generic dumb printers. | To create paginated reference pages, process
the source reference pages using the
-man.page
macro
package.
See
man(1)
for instructions on how to format
for printing. |
catpw |
Not supported. | Use the
printpw
command. |
ccat |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
ccr |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
chpt |
Not supported. | Use the
disklabel
command. |
col |
The
-h
option outputs
tabs instead of spaces. |
Use the
-x
option
to output spaces. |
compact |
Not supported. | Use the
compress
command. |
cpio |
No
-k
option. |
No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
|
The
-C
option specifies
a record size for input and output instead of providing a compatibility mode. |
No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
crash |
Not supported. | Use the
kdbx
command. |
crontab |
When both day of week and day of month arguments are specified, the command is executed when both match. | The command is executed when either of these specified arguments match. |
csh |
No
hashstat
built-in command. |
No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
|
No
CSHEDIT
environment
variable. |
Use the
editmode
variable. |
ctrace |
Not supported. | Use the
dbx
debugger. |
dms |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
drtest |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
dupterm |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
edauth |
Not supported. | Auditing not supported. |
elcsd |
Not supported. | Use the
syslogd
daemon. |
eli |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
enroll |
Not supported. | Secret mail not supported. |
ex |
The ULTRIX
ex
editor uses
the
termcap
database. |
The DIGITAL UNIX
ex
editor uses
the
terminfo
database. |
ext_srvtab |
Not supported. | Kerberos not supported. |
eyacc |
Not supported. | Use the
yacc
command. |
flcopy |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
format |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
from |
No
-f
option. |
Use the
mailx -f -H
mailbox
command. |
fsirand |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
gencat |
Message catalog limits increased. | No usage difference. |
genra |
Not supported. | Use the
gendisk
command. |
gcore |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
getauth |
Not supported. | Auditing not supported. |
hesupd |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
iconv |
Does not accept user-defined conversion tables as input. | Use
iconv
to convert only
between pc850 (IBM personal computer code) and ISO 8859-1 (Latin/1) character
sets. |
ifconfig |
No
copyall
and
-copyall
parameters. |
No DIGITAL UNIX equivalents. |
|
No
dstaddr
parameter. |
Use the
dest_address
parameter. |
install |
Derived from System V Version 3
install
program. |
For an installation program that has the
BSD
install
program behavior, use the
installbsd
command. |
ipcs |
No
-C
option. |
No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
|
No
-N
option. |
No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
kdb_destroy |
Not supported. | Kerberos not supported. |
kdb_edit |
Not supported. | Kerberos not supported. |
kdb_init |
Not supported. | Kerberos not supported. |
kdb_util |
Not supported. | Kerberos not supported. |
kdestroy |
Not supported. | Kerberos not supported. |
kgconv |
Not supported. | Kerberos not supported. |
kinit |
Not supported. | Kerberos not supported. |
klist |
Not supported. | Kerberos not supported. |
kprop |
Not supported. | Kerberos not supported. |
kpropd |
Not supported. | Kerberos not supported. |
kstash |
Not supported. | Kerberos not supported. |
lb_admin |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
lcp |
Not supported. | Use the
latcp
command. |
ld |
The
-l
option links with
shared libraries by default. |
Use the
-non_shared
option
to link with static libraries. |
lk |
Not supported. | Use the
ld
command. |
llbd |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
load |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
login |
No
-C,
-e,
or
-P
options. |
No DIGITAL UNIX equivalents. |
|
No
-r
option. |
The DIGITAL UNIX system automatically initializes
the
rlogin
protocol in the
rlogind
daemon
prior to executing the
login
utility. |
lpr |
No
-z
option. |
No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
|
No
Ddatatype
option. |
No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
|
Translating ASCII, ReGIS, or TEKTRONIX data into PostScript data is not supported. Displaying messages from a PostScript printer is not supported. | Embed PostScript commands in the PostScript file to allow data translation or to display messages from a printer. |
lpx |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
ls |
The
-l
option displays
the group by default. |
Use the
-o
option
in place of the ULTRIX
-l
option.
Use the
-l
option in place of the ULTRIX
-lg
option combination. |
mail |
If the
/usr/ucb
directory
was searched before the
/bin
directory, you used the
/usr/ucb/mail
program. |
Use the
mailx
command
to use a similar program. |
|
If the
/bin
directory
was searched before the
/usr/ucb
directory, you used the
/usr/bin/mail
program. |
Use the
binmail
command
to use a similar program. |
MAKEHOSTS |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
man |
Does not reformat a reference page every time standard out is redirected to a pipe or file. | Reformat the reference page manually.
See
man(1). |
|
Reference pages are displayed by
more -svf
instead of
page -s. |
Use
more -svf
or
page -svf
when viewing formatted reference
pages directly. |
|
Does not recognize the sections local, new, old, or public. | Specify sections l, n, o, and p. |
|
Multicharacter subsection names are no longer hard coded. | |
|
See the
catman
command. |
|
mdtar |
Not supported. | Use the
tar
command. |
miscd |
Not supported. | Use the
inetd
daemon in
place of
miscd. |
mkconsole |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
mkfs |
Not supported. | Use the
newfs
command. |
mktemp |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
mop_mom |
Not supported. | Supported in the DECnet/OSI for DIGITAL UNIX product. |
more |
Does not pass Escape sequences by default. | Specify the
-v
option. |
|
The default number of lines displayed is k-1 instead of k-2. | Use the
-n
option to override the default. |
|
Does not allow hyphens in the
MORE
environment variable. |
Remove all hyphens and spaces from the
MORE
environment variable. |
|
See the
ex
command. |
|
mountd |
By default, the DIGITAL UNIX command requires you to be superuser. | Specify the
-n
option
when you are not the superuser. |
nawk |
Not supported. | Use the
gawk
command. |
netx |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
nfssetlock |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
nrglbd |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
nroff |
Instead of the Teletype Model 37 terminal,
the default output device for
nroff
is a generic dumb printer
with no reverse line capabilities. |
No DIGITAL UNIX support for the Teletype Model 37 terminal. |
|
Converts bold font data to
char<BS>
same_char
sequences
if the device does not have a bold font.
This overstriking is invisible except
on line printers. |
Pipe the output through the
ul(1)
command
if bold text is not visible, and use
more -svf
to view the result. |
|
RISC ULTRIX
nroff
drivers
are not compatible. |
Convert RISC ULTRIX
nroff
drivers to C code and recompile them.
See
term(4). |
ntalkd |
Not supported. | Use the
talkd
daemon for
remote use of the
talk
command. |
ntpd |
Not supported. | Use the
xntpd
daemon. |
opser |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
otalk |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
page |
The default number of lines displayed is k instead of k-1. | Use the
-n
option to override the default. |
passwd |
No
-a
option. |
No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
pc |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. However, you can purchase a Pascal compiler separately from the DIGITAL UNIX system. |
pdx |
Not supported. | Use the
dbx
debugger. |
pg |
See
ex. |
|
ping |
The
-l
option causes
ping
to send a specified number of packets, rather than causing
ping
to display long output. |
Use the
ping
command without
the
-q
option to receive long output. |
pixie |
The
-dwops,
-idtrace,
-itrace,
-dtrace, and
-idtrace_file, options are not supported. |
No DIGITAL UNIX equivalents. |
plot |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
pmerge |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
print |
Not supported. | Use the
lpr
command. |
prmail |
Not supported. | Use the
binmail -p
command. |
pstat |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
pxp |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
pxref |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
pxtar |
Not supported. | Use the
tar
command. |
rc |
Not supported. | The
rc2
and
rc3
commands are run to bring the system to multiuser mode.
These
commands are invoked by the
inittab
procedure. |
rc.local |
Not supported. | The
rc2
and
rc3
commands are run to bring the system to multiuser mode.
These
commands are invoked by the
inittab
procedure. |
regis_ps |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
remnode |
Not supported. | Supported in the DECnet/OSI for DIGITAL UNIX product. |
rmauth |
Not supported. | Auditing not supported. |
routed |
No Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) support. | Use the
gated
routing
daemon. |
rsh5 |
Not supported. | Use the
Rsh
shell. |
|
No
-n
option. |
No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
|
No
-d
option. |
No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
|
No
-r
option reverses
the sort order of the display, rather than displaying only hosts that are
running. |
|
rwho |
No
-h
option. |
No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
rxformat |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
rzdisk |
Not supported. | Use the
scu
program. |
s5make |
Not supported. | Use the
make
command. |
scamp |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
secsetup |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
setauth |
Not supported. | Auditing not supported. |
sh |
The
sh
command is like
the ULTRIX
sh5
command, not the ULTRIX
sh
command. |
No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent for ULTRIX
sh. |
|
No
-n
option for the
echo
command.
The
echo
command interprets escape
sequences, such as
\c,
\n, or
\t. |
To suppress the newline character, specify
\c
at the end of a string argument to the
echo
command instead of the
-n
option.
To make
echo
display the characters in the escape sequence, enclose arguments
to
echo
in quotation marks and specify extra backslashes.
For example, to cause
echo
to display
\c,
enter
\\\c
as an argument. |
|
No
set -
command. |
No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
sh5 |
Not supported. | Use the
Additionally, the DIGITAL UNIX
|
shexp |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
snapcopy |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
sort5 |
Not supported. | Use the
sort
command. |
spline |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
startcpu |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
stcode |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
sticky |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
stopcpu |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
su |
To become superuser, a user must be a member of the system group (GID 0) if GID 0 exists. | Delete the group with GID 0 from the group
access list or add user names for all users that should have root access to
the group.
The group access list is stored in the
/etc/group
database. |
symorder |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
syscript |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
tapex |
No
-N
option. |
No N-buffered I/O support. |
tar |
The ULTRIX header format for multivolume tapes is unsupported. | Use the
-U
option. |
|
No
-d,
-D,
-H,
-M,
-N,
-O,
-R,
or
-V
option. |
No DIGITAL UNIX equivalents. |
|
The
-s
option tells
tar
to strip off leading slashes from pathnames instead of specifying
the number of 512-byte blocks. |
Use the
-S
option
to specify the number of 512-byte blocks. |
tek4014_ps |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
test |
The
-f
option determines
whether a file exists and is a regular file. |
Use other options to emulate the ULTRIX
test
command as described in Section 3.2.1. |
timed |
No
-E
option. |
No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
trace |
Not supported. | Use the
dbx
debugger. |
trigger |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
uac |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
uerf |
No
-A
option. |
No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
|
Not all type codes for the
-O
and
-r
options are available. |
See
uerf(8)
for a list of supported type codes. |
ul |
The ULTRIX
ex
editor uses
the
termcap
database. |
The DIGITAL UNIX
ex
editor
uses the
terminfo
database. |
uncompact |
Not supported. | Use the
compress
command
to compress files and the
uncompress
command to expand
the files. |
uuclean |
Not supported. | Use the DIGITAL UNIX
uucleanup
command. |
uucompact |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
uucp |
Significant differences. | For information about using the DIGITAL UNIX
uucp
command, see
uucp(1). |
uuid_gen |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
uulog |
No
-uuser
option. |
Use the DIGITAL UNIX
uustat -uuser
command. |
uumkspool |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
uupoll |
Not supported. | Use the DIGITAL UNIX
uutry
command. |
uurespool |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
uusub |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
vc |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
vcc |
Not supported. | Use the
cc
command. |
vi |
The ULTRIX
ex
editor uses
the
termcap
database. |
The DIGITAL UNIX
ex
editor
uses the
terminfo
database. |
wait |
Not supported. | Use the
/bin/sh
built-in
wait
command. |
xget |
Not supported. | Secret mail not supported. |
xlator_call |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |
xsend |
Not supported. | Secret mail not supported. |
zic |
Not supported. | No DIGITAL UNIX equivalent. |