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[Larry Snyder]

john at jwt.UUCP (John Temples) writes:

>Norton is for ISC, AT&T, and SCO UNIX.  It says so right on the box.
>It would probably run fine on ESIX if you used the S51K file system
>rather than FFS, or it might even work with FFS.  I'm not brave enough
>to find out. :)

>>Look at Word Perfect, they have a version for SCO Unix and Interactive
>>Unix - but not for ESIX.   WP might run just fine under ESIX, but then
>>it might not.

>WordPerfect is listed in the ESIX software compatibility list.  ESIX
>has even released console driver patches specifically to support
>WordPerfect.

but WP under ESIX isn't supported by WP (so Word Perfect Unix technical
support told me).  They said I could try it - but if and when problems
came up, I would be "one my own". 

WP support said something to the effect of "if we supported ESIX,
we would say so in our documentation"
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