--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CGP00018 Date: 12/18/95 From: ROBERT MILLER Time: 12:14am \/To: ALL (Read 9 times) Subj: X, Telenet, NFS, FTP Hello All! Are there shareware or public domain programs available to do X, Telenet, NFS, and FTP to work with SCO 5? * WCE 2.0/2273 * Artificial Intelligence: The other guy's opinion. --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: Time-Out BBS *610-857-2648* 19.2 ZyXEL *PA* (1:2626/203.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CGQ00000 Date: 12/03/95 From: DARRELL BOWMAN Time: 10:17am \/To: LAWRENCE GARVIN (Read 9 times) Subj: News //Just before the photon torpedoes from the Excalibur destroyed //his ship, LAWRENCE GARVIN bellowed about News: LG>After that, corner an active news administrator / Internet Access Provider >and interrogate them until they pass out from the tequila shots you keep >buying them. Oooooo.. yer bad Lawrence, your bad.... Excalibur Darrell Bowman Fidonet 1:3666/603 Internet bowmandl@smoky.dhr.state.nc.us darrell.bowman@f603.n3666.z1.fidonet.org * 1st 2.00 #6680 * Larry King... Radio's answer to Nyquil --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: High Tech Center BBS 21.6K USR/DST (1:3666/603.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CGQ00001 Date: 12/03/95 From: DARRELL BOWMAN Time: 10:28am \/To: LAWRENCE GARVIN (Read 9 times) Subj: peristent internet connec //Just before the photon torpedoes from the Excalibur destroyed //his ship, LAWRENCE GARVIN bellowed about peristent internet connec: WV> I am really running out of patience with SCO 5.0.0. LG>Please don't. I've spent the last three months working with it, and I'm >happy to help as I can. Is that the latest version?? We're getting ready to get a new SCO box, and I want to know what to watch for. LG>It's called a leased line. :) And they ain't cheap. Excalibur Darrell Bowman Fidonet 1:3666/603 Internet bowmandl@smoky.dhr.state.nc.us darrell.bowman@f603.n3666.z1.fidonet.org * 1st 2.00 #6680 * The magic of Windows: turn a 486DX266 into a 4MHz 8088... --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: High Tech Center BBS 21.6K USR/DST (1:3666/603.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CGQ00002 Date: 12/11/95 From: DARRELL BOWMAN Time: 12:01am \/To: DWIGHT FRANCIS (Read 9 times) Subj: Linux Detecting?? //Just before the photon torpedoes from the Excalibur destroyed //his ship, DWIGHT FRANCIS bellowed about Linux Detecting??: DF> Can anyone tell me how to detect if Linux is running from within > DOSEMU? If this sounds funny it is because I want to run > something at boot time (batch file) only if Linux IS underneath. > There is probably a better way, but I don't have my docs for > DOSEMU which has gotten very large for me to download. As I'm sure Lawrence is gonna' tell you, you'd be better off posting this question in the Linux echo, but I got my own question, Doesn't this seem a bit unnecessary? I mean, doesn't Linux HAVE to be running if your in DOSEMU??? Excalibur Darrell Bowman Fidonet 1:3666/603 Internet bowmandl@smoky.dhr.state.nc.us darrell.bowman@f603.n3666.z1.fidonet.org * 1st 2.00 #6680 * President Clinton doesn't inhale, he just sucks... --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: High Tech Center BBS 21.6K USR/DST (1:3666/603.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CGQ00003 Date: 12/12/95 From: DARRELL BOWMAN Time: 11:35pm \/To: YOUSUF KHAN (Read 9 times) Subj: Linux //Just before the photon torpedoes from the Excalibur destroyed //his ship, YOUSUF KHAN bellowed about Linux: YK>operating systems which really are the modern descendants of DOS: (1) >Windows 3.x & Windows 95, (2) OS/2, and (3) Windows NT. Windows 3.X is not an operating system. It is an "environment". It doesn't boot up, it takes DOS to boot it, In my opinion, the jury is still out on Win95, I'm still not convinced that it doesn't use DOS. But, I guess that's not really on-topic here... :-) Excalibur Darrell Bowman Fidonet 1:3666/603 Internet bowmandl@smoky.dhr.state.nc.us darrell.bowman@f603.n3666.z1.fidonet.org * 1st 2.00 #6680 * I need to put out the cat, said the fireman. --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: High Tech Center BBS 21.6K USR/DST (1:3666/603.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CGQ00004 Date: 12/12/95 From: DARRELL BOWMAN Time: 11:39pm \/To: PETER CONRAD (Read 9 times) Subj: PSI - Homeowner's Assn. A //Just before the photon torpedoes from the Excalibur destroyed //his ship, PETER CONRAD bellowed about PSI - Homeowner's Assn. A: PC>called "PSI" and runs on "BOSS", neither of which I am familiar with. I m >going to have to construct a Server for this and connect all the client You mean they're not putting it together for you??? You know, this should sound familiar to me, I had a client one time running a hotel/motel on a system that ran on BOSS, but I can't remember the name of the software. Sorry I don't know more about BOSS though. PC>software and it's quirks would be appreciated. Talking with a Salesman >just doesn't cut it . Ain't it the truth... so tell the salesperson you don't want to talk to him, tell him you want to talk to his technical people. Heck, I'd be doing that anyway before I even agreed to buy the package, I'd want to know what kind of support I could expect. Are they any good, and such as that... just my two cents worth. Excalibur Darrell Bowman Fidonet 1:3666/603 Internet bowmandl@smoky.dhr.state.nc.us darrell.bowman@f603.n3666.z1.fidonet.org * 1st 2.00 #6680 * Bill Clinton - the Eddie Haskel of politics --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: High Tech Center BBS 21.6K USR/DST (1:3666/603.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CGQ00005 Date: 12/12/95 From: DARRELL BOWMAN Time: 11:46pm \/To: ALL (Read 9 times) Subj: Unix and Eudora //Excalibur, in a retrospective mood, scribed a bit of //fluff for your edification and enjoyment: Okay, here's another Eudora question.... sortof... My software vendor just set up a POP3 mail server for us, in addition to (I guess?) sendmail. So, now I'm on my PC on the network, and I get my notification of mail when it arrives on the IBM RISC/6000 even if I'm not logged into the IBM,... I like this. Yes, I'm using Eudora Lite. So my question is this,... I'm also using Netscape Navigator 2.0 (what ever beta I just pulled down today) and I wonder, can I use Netscape to get my mail? Also, how can I now access Usenet groups on the internet (we have a direct connection)? Excalibur Darrell Bowman Fidonet 1:3666/603 Internet bowmandl@smoky.dhr.state.nc.us darrell.bowman@f603.n3666.z1.fidonet.org * 1st 2.00 #6680 * Cat: Small animal when defurred, resembles Chinese food. --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: High Tech Center BBS 21.6K USR/DST (1:3666/603.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CGR00000 Date: 12/16/95 From: MICHAEL OLIVER Time: 09:32am \/To: DWIGHT FRANCIS (Read 9 times) Subj: Linux Detecting?? Hello Dwight. Friday December 08 1995 07:46, Dwight Francis wrote to All: DF> Can anyone tell me how to detect if Linux is running from DF> within DF> DOSEMU? If this sounds funny it is because I want to run DF> something at boot time (batch file) only if Linux IS DF> underneath. DF> There is probably a better way, but I don't have my docs for DF> DOSEMU which has gotten very large for me to download. DF> Info please, One way would be to set some environmental variable in the linux "autoexec.bat" and then only do if it is set! Michael --- GoldED 2.50 UNREG * Origin: For Your Computer. Brisbane, QLD. OZ. +61-7-3285-3781 (3:640/257) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CGR00001 Date: 12/20/95 From: TREV ROYDHOUSE Time: 2:50 am \/To: WALTER VAUGHAN (Read 9 times) Subj: Re: Sun reliablity > In the past two years I have seen more hardware > failures with my internet providers than can believe. > They are having equipment fail like I did nearly ten > years ago on our Tandy 6000. Hard-drives, memory > chips, power supplies (alot of these lately) amoung > other problems. This is with two different companies > on Sun equipment. The US parent of the Australian subsidiary for which I work has several Sun 2000s with 8 cpus. One of them has had every component replaced multiple times. CPUs fry themselves with regular monotony. Tape drives also die with regular monotony, along with hard drives. Sun blame the "Unicenter" software run on the 2000 in question. The software boffins blame Sun :-) When we bought a Sun Sparc Classic a couple of years ago, we went through 3 (mono) monitors in a month! I'll stick with Taiwanese Pentium PCs and SVGA monitors thanks :-) TREV. --- QM v1.30 * Origin: Sentry -- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (3:711/401.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CGR00002 Date: 12/19/95 From: LAWRENCE GARVIN Time: 11:39pm \/To: WALTER VAUGHAN (Read 9 times) Subj: More folklore Walter Vaughan said in a message to All: WV> Just got to thinkin... WV> Does anyone remember where Microsoft got Xenix from. Did WV> they buy an AT&T license? They did. If I recall correctly (I could research it, but I'm in lazy mode at 11:40 at nite ) -- they acquired a source license to AT&T Unix, which at the time was only running on PDP type computers. They created Xenix, which among others, was ported to the 68000, and then OEMed to Tandy for sale on the upgraded Model 16 and the subsequent Tandy 6000. (I have the dubious honor of having sold and supported those Tandy 6000 Xenix systems). Subsequently, Xenix was licensed (sold ??) to Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. (SCO), who then ported Xenix to the Intel processor line. While there was a Xenix written for the 80286, that processor was basically to slow (not to mention the screwed up protected memory mode and the 16MB memory limit) to provide much functional use for Xenix outside of a personal shell station. When Intel announced the 80386 with hardware multitasking, linear memory support, and it's other goodies, Xenix found a home, and SCO became the major market vendor for Intel-based *nix, basically because they were there first. WV> I say that because today any new Intel based Unix is expected WV> to run a 8086 binary from 1983 until the cows come home. Not quite. Perhaps an i386 binary -- but then the instruction sets for the i386, i486, and Pentium are basically the same. The only thing that would differ is the format of the binary file, itself; and whether the code had been optimized for the i486 or Pentium processor. WV> Everyone bitches and moans about MS, but over ten years ago WV> we had Xenix running stable on 68000 machines (Tandy 16B & WV> 6000), Note also, that those systems only supported three or four simultaneous users in a character-terminal ONLY mode, and those terminals ran at 9600bps on the serial link. WV> proprietary 8086 architectures (Altos), Albeit, single user systems. :) WV> and the now retired IBM PC-AT motherboard. And who knows what WV> other incarnations were around. Point is Xenix put alot of *nix WV> in small businesses across the planet. Your point, nevertheless, is true. ;) WV> Another wierd thing. If I remember correctly, MS owns about 15% WV> of SCO. Now with the stock swap with Novell for Unixware, two WV> of the larger owners of the keeper of the PC Unix flame are WV> Microsoft and Novell. That must make for some really WV> interesting NDA's. Can't see any reason why a minority stockholder not involved with product development would need to be subject to an NDA, though. lawrence@garvin.hd.co.harris.tx.us --- * Origin: The Enchanted Forest | Houston, Texas (1:106/6018)