smitty vs. smit

[Charles Johnson]

Would someone kindly explain the difference between smitty and smit?

I would appreciate it.

Cheers--
Charles, Machine Whisperer

[Kent Squires]

if your DISPLAY variable is set, 'smit' will start the GUI version
(blech! - who cares about a little running man?) and 'smitty' will
start the ASCII version. if no DISPLAY variable is set, smit runs the
ASCII version as well.

[Bernd Huebenett]

Hello,

"smitty" is for terminals and "smit" is the same for graphical displays.
If you call "smit" while working at a terminal you will end up
automaticaly in "smitty".

Bye,
Bernd

[Kris Wouters]

Hi,

As far as I know, smit is the graphical interactive tool for system
management on AIX. Smitty is not graphical but does the same thing.
You will only see the difference on a graphical display.

Regards,

Kris Wouters
Implementation Engineer

Charles Johnson wrote in message ...

[Stéphane ZANCANARO]

HI !
It seems that smitty is more performant than smit :
the choices are more often true ( i.e. inextisting products or levels in
smit )
the options are best for systems personals ; Very Often IBM personals
temselves
uses SMITTY and not smit.
Sometimes, only SMITTY offers some services ( raid, ssa, ...)
As smitty is'nt graphical, memory is less used, it's better fore some
situations ( problems
with memory).

Stéphane ZANCANARO
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[Norman Levin]

There are two smits.
1. smitty - for tty terminals
2. msmit - for motif or X
SMIT is a short shell script that selects which one to use based on $DISPLAY.
Both 1 & 2 get ALL of their information on screen content, prompts, options from the
ODM. There should be no difference in function between 1 & 2.
--
Norman Levin

"In 1555, Nostradamus wrote: 'Come the millennium, month 12, in the home of
greatest power, the village idiot will come forth to be acclaimed the
leader.'"

[Dell Coleman]

On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 06:39:21, Norman Levin <norma...@attglobal.net>
wrote:

> There are two smits.
> 1. smitty - for tty terminals
> 2. msmit - for motif or X
> SMIT is a short shell script that selects which one to use based on $DISPLAY.
> Both 1 & 2 get ALL of their information on screen content, prompts, options from the
> ODM. There should be no difference in function between 1 & 2.

If you want to set the video resolution for the graphical display it
appears you need to use the GUI version of smit.
--
Dell Coleman
de...@aleph.tum.com

[Maurizio Sabatini]

"Stéphane ZANCANARO" wrote:

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Maurizio Sabatini