feuer@cpl-mfh.UUCP (Steven Feuerstein) (11/16/89)
Does anybody have experience using SCO VP/IX running the following product: * Microsoft Quick Basic Vers. 4.5 * Microsoft Quick C * Microsoft C Compiler Vers. 5.0 * Lotus 1-2-3 I need to know if these products run under VP/IX and any limitation encountered compared to running them under the DOS environment. Thanks! Steve Feuerstein sunybcs!cpl-mfh!feuer 716-887-4572
lance@embassy.UUCP (Lance N. Antrim) (11/20/89)
Regarding programs that run, or don't run, under VP/ix, SCO says that Word Perfect 4.2 will run but makes no mention of WP 5.0. My experience is that WP 5.0 won't work, possibly because of the way it uses the keyboard. MS Word 5.0, however, does work. Has anyone succeeded in running WP 5.0 under VP/ix? If so, did you have to do anything beyond the normal installation to get it running? -- Lance Antrim Project on Multilateral Negotiation ..!uunet!embassy!lance American Academy of Diplomacy ___________________________________________________________________________
frankb@usource.SARASOTA.FL.US (Frank Bicknell) (11/20/89)
In article <115@embassy.UUCP> lance@embassy.UUCP (Lance N. Antrim) writes: > Has anyone succeeded in running WP 5.0 under VP/ix? If so, did > you have to do anything beyond the normal installation to get it > running? I'm not familiar with WP, but is it possible they've used '286 code therein? VP/ix only emulates 8086, right? Windows '[23]86 won't run for that reason, which leaves out things like Excel. -- Frank Bicknell UniSource; 1405 Main St, Ste 709; Sarasota, FL 34236 attctc!usource!frankb || frankb@usource.SARASOTA.FL.US
bob@consult.UUCP (Bob Willey) (11/21/89)
In article <115@embassy.UUCP> lance@embassy.UUCP (Lance N. Antrim) writes: >Regarding programs that run, or don't run, under VP/ix, SCO says that >Word Perfect 4.2 will run but makes no mention of WP 5.0. My experience >is that WP 5.0 won't work, possibly because of the way it uses the >keyboard. MS Word 5.0, however, does work. >Has anyone succeeded in running WP 5.0 under VP/ix? If so, did you have >to do anything beyond the normal installation to get it running? .You may want to consider not running applications like this under VP/ix , its intent is to provide a path for applications that are NOT available under Xenix and ONLY available under DOS. It is NOT a multi-user DOS package. The performance is not that great for heavy use, only for occassional use. I know I'll probably be flamed for this, but that is our experience. Word 5.0 and WordPerfect 5.0 will both be available shortly under NATIVE Xenix mode, so you would be better to wait for the REAL thing and run it NATIVE. Performance and overall will be much better. IMHO -- .. Computer Consulting Service .. Bob Willey .. .. P.O. Drawer 1690 .. uunet!consult!bob .. .. Easton, Maryland 21601 .. (301) 820-4670 .. ...............................................................
compata@cup.portal.com (David H Close) (11/21/89)
WP 5.0 under VP/ix works fine (?) for me. You must add SWITCHKEY to vpix.cnf. However, it doesn't seem to be able to keep up with my (moderately fast) typing, dropping about one character per line. Dave Close, Compata, Arlington, Texas compata@cup.portal.com
mikes@NCoast.ORG (Mike Squires) (11/22/89)
In article <115@embassy.UUCP> lance@embassy.UUCP (Lance N. Antrim) writes: >Has anyone succeeded in running WP 5.0 under VP/ix? If so, did you have >to do anything beyond the normal installation to get it running? > I have WP 5.0 running under VP/ix without any problems. I have a 32MB DOS partition on the primary drive and WP is on it. The DOS partition is writable by the vpix user, which is necessary if WP 5.0 is to work. I use it frequently, although not with very complex documents. (I'm running an old version, 7/11/88; I have the newer version but have never installed it.) Michael L. Squires uucp: {necntc,cwjcc,hoptoad}!ncoast!peng!sir-alan!mikes 752 Chestnut Street ..!{pitt,uunet!convex,uunet}!sir-alan!mikes Meadville, PA 16335 BITNET: mikes%sir-alan@pitt.UUCP (VAX) Voice: 814 337 5528 MIKES AT SIR-ALAN!PITT.UUCP (IBM) Data: 814 337 0348 Internet: sir-alan!mikes@uunet.uu.net login of "ubbs" for BBS sir-alan!mikes@vax.cs.pittsburgh.edu
bruce@mdi386.UUCP (Bruce A. McIntyre) (11/23/89)
In article <330@usource.SARASOTA.FL.US>, frankb@usource.SARASOTA.FL.US (Frank Bicknell) writes: > In article <115@embassy.UUCP> lance@embassy.UUCP (Lance N. Antrim) writes: > > Has anyone succeeded in running WP 5.0 under VP/ix? If so, did > > you have to do anything beyond the normal installation to get it > > running? > I'm not familiar with WP, but is it possible they've used '286 > code therein? VP/ix only emulates 8086, right? Windows '[23]86 > won't run for that reason, which leaves out things like Excel. I have run Samna AMI, which is a Windows based WP under XENIX386 2.2.3, and it works fine. In fact, it is much faster than on my 10mhz 80286 machine. (I think the disk cache makes the difference). I have also run WP5.0 under Xenix. To do this, I had to put WP on the DOS partition, and it would then work. It seems that WP MUST run on a DOS filesystem, not an emulated DOS filesystem. I set this up as "D:" drive, cd to D, and then run WP. I don't know that I am doing anything else special.. Oh Yeh, I had to chown the DOS partition to the group that runs VPIX, and chmod the DOS partition to rwx for group. bruce -- ========================================================================= Bruce A. McIntyre, McIntyre Designs, Inc. VOICE(215)322-1895 143 Bridgetown Pike, Langhorne, Pa. 19047 DATA (215)357-2915 {wells}!mdi386!bruce bruce@mdi386.UUCP