Altos XENIX/SCO XENIX

[Dave Binette]

In article <402 at mjbtn.MFEE.TN.US> root at mjbtn.MFEE.TN.US (Mark J. Bailey) writes:
>In article <598 at tapa.UUCP>, larry at tapa.UUCP (Larry Pajakowski) writes:
>> Uuto is also on the 2.2 286 and 386 versions of pre HDP SCO Xenix.
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>The word 'Altos' represents a completely different ball game.  Altos has
>good equipment, but their PROPRIETARY xenix is *NO* SCO 286.  You can't even
>take binaries from SCO (ie, products of the cc on SCO) and run them on
>the 286 Altos.  Something to do with the header formats being different. 

according to the SCO docs (very roughly quoted)
"... Altos has not used the latest microsoft compiler ...
 ... Altos plans to correct this ..."

>While SCO has uuto (and everyone else), it is not at all suprising that
>Altos would have left them out.  No offense to Altos, they just do things
>differently...there own way.

thats for sure! The Altos version I used had many ?BSD? utilitys bundled in
the development system.
Even in the standard utilitys I found that by linking or renaming them 
there was all kinds of enhancements available.

For example the    wc    command:
normally it behaved like the standard  Word Count  programme
it counted  words  lines  and  characters.
Linking it to wclptb or some such radically enhanced it to also provide
info on # of  66 line pages, transmisssion time at various baud rates etc.

This was discovered by running 'strings' on the  wc  programme.

There are lots of nice features in  the Altos XENIX package, even if you DO
have to hunt around for some of them.