knewton@watsup.waterloo.edu (K. Glen Newton) (03/09/88)
hello,
this is a call of assistance from someone not to knowledgable about
unix/xenix. in out lab we have a 16 Mhz Zenith 386 with 5 Meg and a 80 meg
hard drive. we are about to purchase sco xenix 386 (os & development),
multi-view, and vp/ix.
i have a couple of questions and problems i would appreciate some help with:
1 - we want to connect to the local net with an ethernet board. what
boards support xenix (& vice versa). will these boards come with the
requisite software(firmware) (tcp/ip, etc...).
2 - what about email and news? every other unix machine on the net
around campus are running bsd4.3, so i don't know if we'll be able
to get sources for the above that would run without much difficulty.
is there a public domain news for xenix?
3 - with vp/ix, can you run a ms-dos task in more than one console window
at a time?
4 - has anyone had any experiance with the statistics package that runs
on xenix?
5 - exactly what terminals does 2.2.2 actually support?
6 - is the ms C compiler come with everything the the separatly purchased
version have?
sorry if these questions have already been discussed/answered in this
space or are simply stupid. i would appreciate any advice from 386
xenix users, including anything i have not covered.
thanks much,
'cogito ergo ELK'
watmath!watsup!knewton
knewton@watsup
davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) (03/11/88)
In article <3523@watcgl.waterloo.edu> knewton@watsup.waterloo.edu (K. Glen Newton) writes: | i have a couple of questions and problems i would appreciate some help with: | | 1 - we want to connect to the local net with an ethernet board. what | boards support xenix (& vice versa). will these boards come with the | requisite software(firmware) (tcp/ip, etc...). The excelan system seems to work pretty well for ftp, telnet, and rlogin. I have not seem NFS for XENIX from anyone, although it is doable. | | 2 - what about email and news? every other unix machine on the net | around campus are running bsd4.3, so i don't know if we'll be able | to get sources for the above that would run without much difficulty. | is there a public domain news for xenix? The existing news will run with minimal hacking, but I would wait for the new version. You can get your Email via uucp or SMTP on Enet. I don't know if anyone offers the SMTP interface, but it only takes a day or so to write. I only did the server, since Excelan gave me software to do uucp via Enet, and all my outgoing stuff works that way. | | 3 - with vp/ix, can you run a ms-dos task in more than one console window | at a time? ??? You can with the version that runs on 386ix. Haven't gotten my version for Xenix yet (real soon now, they tell me). | | 5 - exactly what terminals does 2.2.2 actually support? Standard set of termlib stuff. Unless you use something bizarre it should work. | | 6 - is the ms C compiler come with everything the the separatly purchased | version have? Don't confuse the MS-DSO and Xenix compilers. They're similar, but don't always produce quite the same code. The 386 cc will compile for x/286 or DOS, and will run most x/286 programs (unless they depend on file formats in the system files). The compile to DOS doesn't include curses, and I haven't had a chance to compile the PD PC-curses package under Xenix. ================================================================ Overall I have been very happy with the system. The o/s has been very reliable (ain't broke yet), and the support software is quite good. I have not tried other Enet boards other than Excelan. -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
chip@killer.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) (03/15/88)
>Bill Davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.UUCP) replied: >>K. Glen Newton (knewton@watsup.waterloo.edu) originally wrote: >> 6 - is the ms C compiler come with everything the the separatly purchased >> version have? > Don't confuse the MS-DSO and Xenix compilers. > The compile to DOS doesn't include curses, and I haven't had a chance >to compile the PD PC-curses package under Xenix. I've put together a makefile which generates a DOS cross-compilation library for the PC-curses package. I'd be glad to send it out if there is any interest. -- Chip Rosenthal chip@vector.UUCP | But if you want to sing the Dallas Semiconductor (214) 450-0400 | blues, then boy you better {codas,ihnp4}!killer!vector!chip | learn how to lose.