[comp.soft-sys.andrew] Further Questions about 386 and Chinese

KW20SWK0@TWNITRI1.BITNET (09/21/90)

First, thanks to those replys to our questions. They are very helpful
to us, but we still have some futher questions :

>There exist, on the distribution, 386 versions for *some* flavors of
>UNIX.  Patchlevel 6 (if you don't have them already, you almost
>certainly want to get all 6 patches that the ITC has put out for Andrew)
>has support for both AIX on those 386 machines that it supports (IBM
>PS/2s) and for Mach on 386 machines.
Could anyone tell us what are these 6 patches? How can we get them?
Our 386s are running SYSTEM V/386. Is this version(SYSTEM V/386) of
Andrew Distribution available?

>I believe that ATK has some new international-language features that may
>be more appropriate to doing Chinese text than a new ATK inset, though
>both paths are available.
We have great interest to know what are these new international-language
features. Could anyone tell us further details about these features?

We are looking forward to your replys.
                                                Wai-Kong, Sung
                                                CCL/ITRI
                                                KW20SWK0@TWNITRI1.BITNET

guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (09/23/90)

>Our 386s are running SYSTEM V/386. Is this version(SYSTEM V/386) of
>Andrew Distribution available?

I don't know of any; however, there is support for AIX on the PS/2, and
that is probably a better starting point than the Mach-on-386-PClone
support that was originally suggested (for one thing, AIX appears to use
COFF, as does S5/386, while Mach-on-a-386 seems, from the support code,
to use "a.out" format; I don't know which of the two is less BSDish in
other ways).

tpn+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Tom Neuendorffer) (09/25/90)

Excerpts from todo: 21-Sep-90 Further Questions about 386..
KW20SWK0%TWNITRI1.BI@vma (1153)

> Could anyone tell us what are these 6 patches? How can we get them?
> Our 386s are running SYSTEM V/386. Is this version(SYSTEM V/386) of
> Andrew Distribution available?

As has been mentioned, you are probably better off starting with the
PS2-AIX port, which is probably more compatable with SYSTEM V/386.
Patches are available via anonymous ftp to dublin.andrew.cmu.edu, or via
mail.   For more information on mail retrieval of information, send a
(blank) piece of mail to andrew-service@andrew.cmu.edu

> We have great interest to know what are these new international-language
> features. Could anyone tell us further details about these features?

The international language features are support for the ISO 8859
character set in text and mail, a compose character function to allow
their entry, and printing support. So while this should be useful to the
European ATK users, I doubt that it will have any impact on implementing
Chinese text. 

    
    Tom N.

tpn+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Tom Neuendorffer) (09/26/90)

Excerpts from mail: 24-Sep-90 Re: Further Questions about.. Tom
Neuendorffer@andrew. (1062)

> Patches are available via anonymous ftp to dublin.andrew.cmu.edu, or via
> mail.   

That should be emsworth.andrew.cmu.edu, not dublin. dublin will not
accept anonymous ftp. Sorry for the confusion.

	Tom
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