>Number:         2946
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       uname -a is not equivalent to uname -[many options]
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people (Misc Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Nov 16 01:20:01 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Peter Seebach
>Organization:
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>Release:        1.2
>Environment:
System: NetBSD taniemarie 1.2_BETA NetBSD 1.2_BETA (SEEBS) #0: Fri Aug 16 17:16:09 CDT 1996 seebs@taniemarie:/usr/src/sys/arch/amiga/compile/SEEBS amiga


>Description:
	uname -a produces the output you see above, which is nigh unparsable.
>How-To-Repeat:
	uname -a
>Fix:
	I don't think '-v' should be implied by '-a'.  I would expect -a to
	produce something more like `uname -mnrs`, because otherwise, I don't
	know there's a sane way to extract useful information from it.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: