dab@cbnewsm.att.com (david.a.berk) (01/05/91)
1. Does anyone know of a full page scanner that will function under vpix ? 2. Has anyone been able to get Microsoft Windows and/or Microsoft Word to function under vpix? Any details would be appreciated. Thanks; Dave Berk AT&T BL (908) 564-3294
vjs@calcite.UUCP (Vernon Schryver) (01/06/91)
In article <1991Jan4.201448.14923@cbnewsm.att.com>, dab@cbnewsm.att.com (david.a.berk) writes: > 2. Has anyone been able to get Microsoft Windows and/or Microsoft Word to > function under vpix? Microsoft Word 5.0 works under VP/ix 1.01.01 (sic) with came with ISC 386/ix 2.0.2, provided you either (1) obtain the 'Word 5.00 "Disk Full" Patch' diskette, or (2) always run Word in DOS partitions instead of UNIX directories. Word 5.5 has the same problem as 5.0, but as of Friday, Jan 5, Microsoft had not come up with a patch disk. They say they're working on it. Feel free to call (800) 426-9400 between 6:30 and 5:30 Pacific time to ask about it. The number of people with the problem no doubt affects the speed with which they'll complete it. Vernon Schryver, vjs@calcite.uucp
dag@gorgon.uucp (Daniel A. Glasser) (01/06/91)
I'll let other people address the software questions, but I know (from trying to figure out how to do it) that in order to use something like a full page scanner (like the HP ScanJet Plus) which uses DMA you need a driver that gets built into the Unix kernel which cooperates with the DOS driver and/or program. If the device just uses shared memory and/or (if I remember properly) interrupts, there is a way to tell vpix and the OS to let the DOS device drivers/programs access the hardware registers and shared memory ranges. It is in the manual but not that easy to understand. I hope this helps. I also hope it is correct. -- Daniel A. Glasser One of those things that goes dag%gorgon@persoft.com "BUMP! (ouch!)" in the night.
asv@gaboon.UUCP (Stan Voket) (01/06/91)
In article <1991Jan4.201448.14923@cbnewsm.att.com> dab@cbnewsm.att.com (david.a.berk) writes: >1. Does anyone know of a full page scanner that will function under vpix ? > >2. Has anyone been able to get Microsoft Windows and/or Microsoft Word to > function under vpix? Dave, I briefly ran MS Windows 2.0 and a HP Scanjet Plus under Interactive's VPix. It worked fine. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | - Stan Voket, asv@gaboon - OR - ...uunet!hsi!stpstn!gaboon!asv - | | - Voice: (203) 746-4489 - FAX 746-9761 TELEX 4996516 - | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) (01/09/91)
asv@gaboon.UUCP (Stan Voket) writes: >I briefly ran MS Windows 2.0 and a HP Scanjet Plus under Interactive's >VPix. It worked fine. Which version of VP/ix ??? -- Derek "Tigger" Terveer det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG - MNFHA, NCS - UMN Women's Lax, MWD I am the way and the truth and the light, I know all the answers; don't need your advice. -- "I am the way and the truth and the light" -- The Legendary Pink Dots
richard@octel.UUCP (Richard Karasik) (01/10/91)
In article <102@calcite.UUCP> vjs@calcite.UUCP (Vernon Schryver) writes: >In article <1991Jan4.201448.14923@cbnewsm.att.com>, dab@cbnewsm.att.com (david.a.berk) writes: >> 2. Has anyone been able to get Microsoft Windows and/or Microsoft Word to >> function under vpix? Yup I just got it going -but you need a free update from ISC (I believe it's SU3. Its gawdallmighty impressive to run X and then invoke vpix and then bring up windows 3.0 (I dont know why anyone would really do this but its still impressive.) Plain vanilla isc wouldn't install windows at all. - By the way I have to reset config.sys to use pems.sys in order to get windows to use more memory (up to 2 MB). Im going to try this tonite. Otherwise you are stuck with the dos limit and that simply aint good enuff to install other programs (like delrina's perform) with. Also during install of windows under vpix in unix partition (which is what I did) it will carp about himem.sys driver -just ignore it and keep on going. > >Microsoft Word 5.0 works under VP/ix 1.01.01 (sic) with came with ISC >386/ix 2.0.2, provided you either (1) obtain the 'Word 5.00 "Disk Full" >Patch' diskette, or (2) always run Word in DOS partitions instead of UNIX >directories. I have had no problems with WORD except it not noticing the mouse. I have several hundred kB of document stored -on a 690MB esdi drive to boot! Richard
rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) (01/17/91)
After talking with SCO tech support several times this week, I've gotten a definitive "no" to the question of running a LAN card under VP/ix. But the problem seems not to be strictly technical; one of the tech experts actually left me a pitch for SCO TCP/IP on my voice mail. I surmise that SCO has made a business decision to preclude network support by third parties under VP/ix. By the way, getting through to SCO tech support can be a real headache. They've taken their voice-mail system to the ultimate automated extreme, forcing you to get a call back from them unless you get pretty insistent. And someone keyed my name in wrong, so whenever they called back they kept asking for the wrong person (someone who happened not to be in the office most of the time this week). Technology seems to be running amok! -rich