> From: "Geo." 
> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> news:f09343.592ccb{at}harborwebs.com...
>> Maybe they are in the US but that's possibly just coz the US is behind on
>> mobile phone adoption & tech.
> Perhaps but I don't see it happening, it's like a light bulb.

That's coz you yanks live in the dark ages of wireless . Here the
higher population density & I suppose cultural conditions make the
mobile the piece of electronics everyone has. I myself no longer wear a
watch coz I use my phone to tell the time because it has a clock & I
always have it. 

>> Really? If you want to (say) install DB2 then you need KSH installed. Time
>> after time the scripting shell is item 1 on a s/w req list as all the
> install
>> scripts are written in one of them.
> I dunno, the shell example is too niche, think back to when CD drives were
> first becoming popular and how long it took before vendors could assume most
> people had CD drives.

In a way but now it's the same wrt DVD'es such that in the "spinning
silver disk" category there are still at least 2+ formats (CD &
DVD) & that doesn't even begin to tackle CD/RW, DVD-R, DVD+R DVD+RW
etc.etc.

>> My'self the first thing I do on solaris is check for bash & if not
> installed,
>> see if I can get it installed. If it is then setting the shell to bash is
> the
>> first line of my env setup script.
> Yes but the fact that the first thing you do is check for bash proves that
> it's not reached critical mass yet where you can just assume most people
> have it already.


On linux I can assume that. It's just solaris as each Unix tends towards
one of the shells. I seem to remember that on AIX it's KSH.

Adam

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