fredb@cheops.OZ (Richard Bassett) (03/16/88)
1. PASCAL FOR XENIX I heard a rumour that Borland's "Turbo" Pascal would soon be available under Xenix-80*86. Does anyone have any further information on this or other Pascal compilers for Xenix? (I know Microsoft have one. Last I knew, it was 80286 only. What is the latest?) Compilation rather than exec'n speed is probably more important. 2. VPIX We have VP/ix (Controlled Release) under Xenix-386. It seems rather buggy (some documented, some not). Has anyone written any terminal support (other than the distributed VT100, ANSI and Wyse[56]0)? The documentation says that various operate_on_(specified)_multiple_objects attributes (insert/delete multiple lines/characters) are mandatory. Is this so? If so, why not call the appropriate insert/delete single-object attribute multiple times? I think many terminals do not support these features. I am fiddling with a driver for Heath/Zenith 19 (it may be old but it has F-keys and an ANSI mode, so it looks like a good one on which to practice). We also have Esprit I's and Esprit 6310's, plus Tatungs which emulate VT100's on order. Our machine is a NEC Powermate-386, which came with a NEC "Advanced (Ughhh) Graphics Card Plus". This is one of the EGA-compatible cards that isn't quite compatible, so our console now has a monochrome Hercules-compatible card. This fills the screen with rubbish when MS-WORD is invoked under vpix. What have I done wrong? 3. GRAPHICS DRIVERS FOR XENIX=*86 CONSOLE A couple of weeks ago we took delivery of SCO's upgrade of the Development System, -286 v2.1 --> -386 v2.2, which includes CGI. However, CGI is a lame duck without drivers for Herc. mono. or EGA graphics (you call CGA "graphics"?) Has anybody out there got drivers for these and other devices. PS I DO have a home-grown Hercules driver, based on the sample CGA driver listed in the Xenix "Writing Device Drivers". I haven't looked at incorporating it into CGI - it may not be possible because it cannot return a segment selector to the user program to enable the user-program to share the video RAM. You can have it, but I'm not sure how to get it to you: - multiple international mailings are expensive - am I permitted to broadcast it to the net, SCO ??? -- R J Bassett, Dept of Textile Tech, Uni of NSW, PO Box 1, Kensington, NSW 2033, AUSTRALIA --