dave@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Dave Bloom) (04/11/88)
It seems we are are licensed and receive source, and we are licensed and receive the Networking Software Package, but we don't have the sources to NSP. Is this an oversight or are we required to make a special purchase??? \ pyramid \ Dave Bloom ihnp4!packard >!rutgers >!andromeda!dave Office: (201) 648-5083 allegra / phri /
paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (04/13/88)
Written 9:11 am Apr 11, 1988 by dave@andromeda.rutgers.edu in comp.sys.pyramid Note title: Networking Software It seems we are are licensed and receive source, and we are licensed and receive the Networking Software Package, but we don't have the sources to NSP. Is this an oversight or are we required to make a special purchase??? \ pyramid \ Dave Bloom ihnp4!packard >!rutgers >!andromeda!dave Office: (201) 648-5083 allegra / phri / End of text from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.pyramid The Computing Services Office at the University of Illinois has been burned by this particular idiocy already. We assumed that after being stiffed $16K for source we would get complete source akin to what we get from Berkeley, i.e., kernel, network, and utilities. I was unpleasantly surprised to find out that Pyramid wanted another $5K for the networking source. What's ironic about it all is that whenever some network utility develops a problem, re-compiling it from the 4.3 BSD source usually fixes it. I was going to complain that the /usr/src/lib/libc/net sources were missing until I installed BIND 4.8 and re-built a special libc.a file. Then I found several routines in gen with syntax errors and missing #include statements. Solving any problem on a Pyramid usually requires solving three other problems first. Paul Pomes UUCP: {ihnp4,uunet,convex}!uiucuxc!paul Internet, BITNET, CSNET: paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu US Mail: UofIllinois, CSO, 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801