[net.eunice] Eunice/Unity

jimst@tekig1.UUCP (Jim Stanley) (07/12/84)

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I am about to be moved to a VMS machine (horrors!) and would like to
get opinions on Eunice and Unity (HCR in Toronto).  Are they as useful
as real Unix?  Do they live well with VMS?  I am particularly interested
in the availability/capability of such things as make, RCS, sccs, lex,
and yacc.

I would also appreciate any opinions as to the relative merits of Eunice
and Unity.

Please mail responses to the address below.  Thanks in advance.

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keith@seismo.UUCP (Keith Bostic) (07/14/84)

I would like to see some responses to this inquiry posted to the net.  I have
worked somewhat extensively on EUNICE; the only other VMS/UNIX fake shell
I've seen was one developed by some students while I was in school.

As far as EUNICE goes, it's fine for all of the standard stuff -- if you want
to run under VMS and just devlop under UNIX, EUNICE gives you the shells,
job control, etc. etc.  On the down side, if you want to do *anything* 
interesting in UNIX (either shell or C/stdio), EUNICE is extremely buggy.
For example, SIGPIPE is missing; programs are never informed of a broken
pipe situation.  Sections 2 and 3 of the manual are supported, but only
casually.  

I haven't seen much discussion in this newsgroup (don't know if y'all 
exhausted the possibilities months ago or what) how about a lively 
commentary on the virtues of EUNICE vs. PHOENIX vs. UNITY?  Are there
others out there?  And is Wollongong *really* doing S5?

		Keith 
			ARPA: keith@seismo 
			UUCP: seismo!keith

*UNIX is trademarked, blah, blah, blah, by whoever it is.

patrick@ism780.UUCP (07/24/84)

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Please summarize responses to the net; I'm sure others will find them
interesting.

Patrick Curran
Interactive Systems Corp.
1212 Seventh St.
Santa Monica, CA 90401.

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