--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: D1I00000 Date: 01/11/96 From: GUY LEFRANCOIS Time: 01:48pm \/To: ALL (Read 8 times) Subj: troff Hi everybody, I recently received a file in troff format. Unfortunately I don't have access to a unix system anymore ;=( and thus can't process the file. And of course, this file contains informations I very much need. My question is about the existence of a MS-DOS equivalent to troff. Does such a thing exist and if so, where can I locate it? And if it does not exist, could someone process the file for me and send it back in straight ASCII? Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated. Guy internet: guy.lefrancois@intermedia.qc.ca --- GEcho 1.11+ * Origin: sbe L'Impromptu bbs, Deux-Montagnes, QC (1:242/846) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: D1I00001 Date: 01/10/96 From: JOHN POLTORAK Time: 03:19pm \/To: TERRY GOODE (Read 8 times) Subj: unix or nt Sunday January 07 1996, Terry Goode writes to All: TG> ok here is the question,my company uses unix for its product and are now TG> thinking of using windows-nt. any comments ,suspected life span,etc? terry TG> g. What do they think that NT will do for them which Unix won't? BTW OS/2 with LAN Server will give you everything that NT will but at a much lesser cost in resources. In fact LAN Server is being developed for use on AS/400s and maybe even RS/6000s so will probably work on AIX before long. With the new age of open systems and standards like OpenDoc about to descend on us, it seems foolish to go down the NT path, since MS is the only major company which does not endorse OpenDoc... John ---------------------------------- mailto://jpolt@bradnet.demon.co.uk --- * Origin: (2:250/313) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: D1I00002 Date: 01/10/96 From: JOHN POLTORAK Time: 02:51pm \/To: ALLEN WITTENAUER (Read 8 times) Subj: Linux Monday January 08 1996, Allen Wittenauer writes to John Poltorak: JP>> At the moment I'm trying to work out which OS's are worth bothering JP>> with in the longer term. It's seems like OS/2 and some Unix variant, JP>> but which one? Probably Solaris or AIX, although Linux will probably JP>> go from strength to strength, especially if a PowerPC version comes JP>> out. AW> I doubt Solaris would fit the bill... let's face it, very little has AW> changed in Solaris compared to the other UNIX's. Even NeXTStep in its AW> short lifespan has more leaps and bounds than Solaris has. AW> AIX will definitely be a heavy hitter, especially with the PowerPC support AW> of AIX v4.x.x... Solaris is also coming out for the PowerPC.... John ---------------------------------- mailto://jpolt@bradnet.demon.co.uk --- * Origin: (2:250/313) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: D1I00003 Date: 01/10/96 From: JOHN POLTORAK Time: 03:02pm \/To: THOMAS MCWILLIAMS (Read 8 times) Subj: OS/2 homomorphic to Unix Monday January 08 1996, Thomas Mcwilliams writes to John Poltorak: TM> Well, anyone familiar with Unix internals will immediately recognize TM> the strong design similarities between OS/2 and Unix if they read the TM> Deitel and Kogan book "The Design of OS/2 2.0". The authors even TM> borrowed the process state diagrams directly from page 31 of "The Design TM> of the Unix Operating System". Quite frankly, most Unix folks seem to TM> hold OS/2 in high esteem. It is pretty easy to make OS/2 look like Unix TM> too. Add the TSHELL, the pd Korn Shell, and the GNU utilities and you'd TM> swear you were running single-user Unix. Actually OS/2 is much improved with the addition of the GNU utils especially things like SORT which is just so much better than the standard OS/2 SORT. I'm not too familiar with the Korn shell, although I understand that many people rate it highly. Do you know of any references to Korn and how to get up to speed with it? You mention TSHELL, which is an excellent program, and I would like to find somethong similar for Unix. One or two people have mentioned the availibility of such a program, but I haven't tracked it down yet. Have you come across one? JP>> This probably shows the book's age since an SMP version of JP>> OS/2 v2.1 was released around 18 months ago, and the SMP JP>> version of Warp is either already available, or its release JP>> is imminent. TM> Thanks for the update. It is hard to keep up. You're not kidding... There's just seems to be so much stuff around John ---------------------------------- mailto://jpolt@bradnet.demon.co.uk --- * Origin: (2:250/313) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: D1I00004 Date: 01/13/96 From: ROBERT SIEMBORSKI Time: 06:45am \/To: CLIFF BLACKWELL (Read 8 times) Subj: Re: Change dirs > AW> 'Relative' pathnames is what's happening. When in /home, you type "cd > AW> bob" to get to /home/bob otherwise you are trying to change to /bob > AW> which isn't the same. Also, when in /home/bob, typing "cd .." will > AW> change to /home and typing "cd .." again will change to /. > > So Bob, the simple thing to do when your in cd /home just type > cd ./bob & you'll be where you want to be. I don't think he even has to do that much, can't he just type "cd bob" from /home and get there as well? Maybe I'm just confused. - Rob - --- SLMAIL v4.5a (#1409) * Origin: Bits 'N Bytes BBS - Leonia, NJ - (201) 346-1661 - 28.8k Connections! (1:2604/214) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: D1I00005 Date: 01/10/96 From: ALAIN BOSCH Time: 06:36pm \/To: ALL (Read 8 times) Subj: Solaris/NextStep Hi All , hope you are having a nice day What's the place needed to install Solaris and NextStep on an intel processor based computer? Thanks -=> Yours sincerely, Alain Bosch <=- --- Terminate 3.00/Pro * Origin: Valery's Dream - OS/2 BBS en couleurs !!! (2:325/15.16) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: D1I00006 Date: 01/11/96 From: KRESIMIR BARIC Time: 02:37pm \/To: TERRY GOODE (Read 8 times) Subj: unix or nt TG>ok here is the question,my company uses unix for its product and are now TG>thinking of using windows-nt. any comments ,suspected life span,etc? TG>terry g. oh boy, I've Mercedes, but rather, I prefer Felicia (SKODA)... it seems that is "something completely different" in fact... --- PCBoard (R) v15.22/5 * Origin: KrBa (2:380/3101.135)