erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend) (04/14/89)
I'm sick and tired of running this evil 3.0. (Guess who doesn't have an nlist() call, to the best of my knowledge?) Anyway, what I'm looking for is: cheapest upgrade path: who's selling 3.51 + Dev Kit + manuals for the lowest price Compatibility Caveats: I'm running a DOS-73, EIA/RAM (w/1.5Mb), VDI_Libs, and a few other neato things. Is the object code (and associated libraries) portable from 3.0 -> 3.51? And, I'm using the OBM (kinda have to). 3.5 vs 3.51: Is there a reason to take one over the other? Is the 'c' fixdisk really going to happen? executables: I have RM-Cobol (from AT&T), and am wondering if it will work ok under 3.5+. Same goes for Smart System, Franz Lisp and any other executables you can think of. Um, email, I'll summarize, and it can be added to the "List of Commonly Asked Unix-Pc Questions". (Which we haven't seen in a while... :-) thx -- "Enter, oh seeker of knowledge... That's *YOU*, fathead!" J. Eric Townsend Inet: cosc5fa@george.uh.edu 511 Parker #2 Houston,Tx,77007 EastEnders Mailing List: eastender@flatline.UUCP
rjg@sialis.mn.org (Robert J. Granvin) (04/15/89)
So I posted instead... :-) >Compatibility Caveats: I'm running a DOS-73, EIA/RAM (w/1.5Mb), > VDI_Libs, and a few other neato things. Is the object code (and > associated libraries) portable from 3.0 -> 3.51? To the best of my knowledge. Does anyone claim differently? > And, I'm using the OBM (kinda have to). I'm sorry. :-) >3.5 vs 3.51: Is there a reason to take one over the other? Is > the 'c' fixdisk really going to happen? It's been eons since I ran 3.5, but I recall general giddyness when upgrading to 3.51 (which I was supposed to get anyways). Our system(s) at work had 3.0, but we never installed them (can't tell you why). The 3.5/3.51 manuals appear to be much better than the 3.0 manuals. The 'c' fixdisk is really Fixdisk 2.0. Yes, it is forthcoming, no it's not ready yet (And I understand why... :-) >executables: I have RM-Cobol (from AT&T), and am wondering if it will > work ok under 3.5+. Same goes for Smart System, Franz Lisp and any > other executables you can think of. I've seen all these things run under 3.51. I can't imagine that anything compiled under 3.0 would be binary-incompatible with 3.51. You may get a better binary or better performance by recompiling, but everything should still work. (Does this hold true if it's using shared libraries?) -- Robert J. Granvin National Computer Systems "Looks like the poor devil died in his sleep." rjg@sialis.mn.org "What a terrible way to die." {amdahl,hpda}!bungia!sialis!rjg