tim@comcon.UUCP (Tim Brown) (12/12/89)
I made one hasty statement concerning running WP50 under vpix. It seems I can't make it work from Z: drive at all. I swear I did the other day somehow, but could not today when challenged by one of the responces I received. I do not care to run it that way so did not test it too much, sorry. It does work really well from D: or C:, just the dos path to the location of WP50, or be in the directory when you run it. BTW, I have also successfully run it from a couple remote terminals, a televideo 965 (wyse60 emulation) and a PC running an emulator. Ran perfectly on the televideo, not so good on the PC. On another note, I am considering purchasing some Sun River terminals to hook up to the system for the express purpose of running WP50, and other DOS software. It will of course run unix software as well. Has anyone done this? I am running ISC2.0.2 and vpix. I know these terminals are nice but am particularily interested in thier claims regarding how close they are to a real PC. Any comments? Tim Brown | Computer Connection | (attmail or uunet)!comcon!tim |
michaelb@wshb.UUCP ( WSHB employee) (12/13/89)
> On another note, I am considering purchasing some Sun River terminals to > hook up to the system for the express purpose of running WP50, and other > DOS software. I have four Sun River terminals on an AST 386 running SCO XENIX. I only use the two user version of VP/ix but my experience should be indicitave. I have foud that, for the most part, any problems I have getting DOS soft- ware to run under VP/ix is a limitation of VP/ix and not the terminals. I guess I mean the Sun Rivers are extremely good imitations of the DOS CON: device. I find I can run any graphics package which will run on the system console without any trouble on the fiber terminals. The Sun Rivers are extremely expensive however. We use them because of their resistance to RFI problems. If you don't have a severe RF environment you may want to check out some of the copper based options first. I have never worked with any of these, and am not at all dissatisfied with the fiber terminals, but cost often seems to be a big issue. -- Michael Batchelor - Systems / Operations Engineer WSHB - An International Broadcast Station of The Christian Science Monitor Syndicate. uunet!wshb!michaelb