ltf@ncmicro.lonestar.org (Lance Franklin) (01/27/91)
I have a little problem I'd like to solve. I have software that I'm porting to run on either SCO Xenix 386 or Unix System V. My problem is that the package likes to see the directory in which the package resides on the root directory. There are reasons for this over which I have no control at present, and on other Unix, we've been able to work around it by doing a soft link on the root directory that points to the actual directory. However, there appears to be no command on Xenix that does soft links, and the closest approximation on SCO Unix is the link command. Since this thing has to be able to install on either system through a common mechanism (the custom command), I was hoping that someone would have a method that I could use to load the directories elsewhere and make a link on the root to point to that directory. I am somewhat hesitant to load the directory right on the root, since some customers might not have a large enough partition mounted on the root to hold the package. Any ideas? Oh, and a second short question...Does anybody have any insights on the best way to set up SCO Xenix or Unix as a single-user workstation? I am not running any terminals on the machine, it's only being used at present as a development station, no external terminals, no mail or uucp, and I am wondering if I can trim the system down somewhat. Also, having worked with GUI's on other Unix machines, I wonder if there's a cheap (preferably PD) GUI I can put on the thing to make it a bit easier to work with...hopefully one that won't take up all my disk and memory space, eh? Lance -- Lance T. Franklin +----------------------------------------------+ (ltf@ncmicro.lonestar.org) | "You want I should bop you with this here | NC Microproducts, Inc. | Lollipop?!?" The Fat Fury | Richardson, Texas +----------------------------------------------+