386 system

[William E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <3523 at watcgl.waterloo.edu> knewton at watsup.waterloo.edu (K. Glen Newton) writes:
| i have a couple of questions and problems i would appreciate some help with:
| 
|     1 - we want to connect to the local net with an ethernet board. what
|         boards support xenix (& vice versa). will these boards come with the
|         requisite software(firmware) (tcp/ip, etc...).
  The excelan system seems to work pretty well for ftp, telnet, and
rlogin. I have not seem NFS for XENIX from anyone, although it is
doable.
| 
|     2 - what about email and news? every other unix machine on the net 
|         around campus are running bsd4.3, so i don't know if we'll be able
|         to get sources for the above that would run without much difficulty.
|         is there a public domain news for xenix?
  The existing news will run with minimal hacking, but I would wait for
the new version. You can get your Email via uucp or SMTP on Enet. I
don't know if anyone offers the SMTP interface, but it only takes a day
or so to write. I only did the server, since Excelan gave me software to
do uucp via Enet, and all my outgoing stuff works that way.
| 
|     3 - with vp/ix, can you run a ms-dos task in more than one console window
|         at a time?
  ??? You can with the version that runs on 386ix. Haven't gotten my
version for Xenix yet (real soon now, they tell me).
|
|     5 - exactly what terminals does 2.2.2 actually support?
  Standard set of termlib stuff. Unless you use something bizarre it
should work.
| 
|     6 - is the ms C compiler come with everything the the separatly purchased
|         version have? 
  Don't confuse the MS-DSO and Xenix compilers. They're similar, but
don't always produce quite the same code. The 386 cc will compile for
x/286 or DOS, and will run most x/286 programs (unless they depend on
file formats in the system files).

  The compile to DOS doesn't include curses, and I haven't had a chance
to compile the PD PC-curses package under Xenix.

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  Overall I have been very happy with the system. The o/s has been very
reliable (ain't broke yet), and the support software is quite good. I
have not tried other Enet boards other than Excelan.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu at ge-crd.arpa)
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