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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US Mail: James Stanley, Lab Instruments Engineering, Tektronix, Inc.
Box 500 MS 39-087, Beaverton OR 97077
Phone: 503-627-3076keith@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.