8 years later it wasn't hard to get a similar experience. Aside from gcc (since SunOS 4's bundled compiler sucked) I didn't get the "gnu experience" until later; I still attempt to live in a very BSD world. This means /usr/ucb/ps and not /usr/bin/ps, for instance. So, every time I use a root shell on a random machine, ps bitches at me that I gave it invalid aarguments. Oh well.