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I'll add -- or you have to port it to another environment, and it has dependancies that you can't rely on.

Eg, if I'm going to have to move from a BSD to an ATT unix, and do something with parsing ps output, and suddenly have to deal with the difference in options between systems. (it's one thing to move it completely, but I don't want to maintain two variants if I don't have to.

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