Eunice/Unity

[Keith Bostic]

I would like to see some responses to this inquiry posted to the net.  I have
worked somewhat extensively on EUNICE; the only other VMS/UNIX fake shell
I've seen was one developed by some students while I was in school.

As far as EUNICE goes, it's fine for all of the standard stuff -- if you want
to run under VMS and just devlop under UNIX, EUNICE gives you the shells,
job control, etc. etc.  On the down side, if you want to do *anything* 
interesting in UNIX (either shell or C/stdio), EUNICE is extremely buggy.
For example, SIGPIPE is missing; programs are never informed of a broken
pipe situation.  Sections 2 and 3 of the manual are supported, but only
casually.  

I haven't seen much discussion in this newsgroup (don't know if y'all 
exhausted the possibilities months ago or what) how about a lively 
commentary on the virtues of EUNICE vs. PHOENIX vs. UNITY?  Are there
others out there?  And is Wollongong *really* doing S5?

		Keith 
			ARPA: keith at seismo 
			UUCP: seismo!keith

*UNIX is trademarked, blah, blah, blah, by whoever it is.