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From: dmd39855@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Daniel DuBois)
Subject: Re: PC emulations for different UNIX Systems
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 07:29:50 GMT

fyl@ssc.com (Phil Hughes) writes:

>mkunze@gwdgv1.gwdg.de wrote:

>: I searching for information on DOS emulations under UNIX (AIX,SunOS,ULTRIX).
>: We want to run a PC database program (written mainly in CLIPPER) under UNIX.
>: So we do not need graphics.
>: What programs are available for the different systems ? Is there anything 
>: usefull realeased to the public domain ?

>Check out the comp.os.linux group.  There a DOS emulator for Linux.  It is
>currently in Alpha but people have reported running stuff like Lotus under
>it successfully.  I don't know if it is PD or Copylefted.

I dont look at this group much, but can anyone give me some general info
about this subject?  Are there any DOS emulators for any Unix'es that
will run any and all DOS apps?   You know, fantasy/dream, itll-never-
happen kind of thing.

Seriously though, whats the best path to take for someone buying a new
computer who likes Unix but wants to play all their DOS games and apps.

-Dan
Newsgroups: comp.unix.dos-under-unix
From: burns@chem.psu.edu (Michael C. Burns)
Subject: Re: dos under aix?
Organization: Penn State Chemistry
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:08:20 GMT

In article <dx3.41.726243775@ornl.gov>, dx3@ornl.gov (C. H. Decker) writes:
|> Does anyone know of a dos under AIX product out there besides IBM's PCSIM?  
|> Thanks!  
|> 
|> Martin Marietta Energy Systems            |
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Not yet, although when I called Insignia Solutions Inc. last month, they
said they are working on a port of SoftPC for the RS6000 and should be
done Spring of this year.  Their phone number is (508) 682-7600.

I had also sent a note to RS/Magazine asking if they knew of any products and
was given a short list of companies that made emulation products, but not
DOS emulators.  Just this week I was contacted by an editor of RS/Magazine.
She wants to do a short story about why people want DOS emulators and
what products are available.  Try contacting her for more info and a copy
of the article she is writing.  She is:

  Jane Majkiewicz
  (617) 738-3403
  jm@expert.com

-- 
Mike Burns       burns@chem.psu.edu
From: aze@first.gmd.de (Andre' Zehl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.dos-under-unix
Subject: VP/ix: How to access dos partition?
Date: 11 Jan 93 12:02:38 GMT
Distribution: comp

I want to access existing DOS partitions from VP/ix

I've tried to configure vpix.cnf with aline similar to
d	/dev/dsk/0p0
but I just get an error starting vpix.

How do I use the vpixdevs file - I didn't find a hint in TFM.  Could 
someone give me any hints how to configure these files.

I'm running ISC3.2.2.1 (don't know the VP/ix version number) , 
Machine is a 486 with two ISA harddisks, partitioned as follows:
	disk1
		40MB MS-DOS 5.00 
		130MB ISC3.2.2.1 primary
	disk2
		52MB MS-ODS 5.00 extended 
		
BTW: Is it possible to upgrade the DOS Version coming with vpix?

Many thanks in advance!
	




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From: fyl@ssc.com (Phil Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.dos-under-unix
Subject: Re: PC emulations for different UNIX Systems
Date: 12 Jan 93 00:53:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: ssc.1993Jan12.005300.14971
Organization: SSC, Inc.,  Seattle, WA
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mkunze@gwdgv1.gwdg.de wrote:

: I searching for information on DOS emulations under UNIX (AIX,SunOS,ULTRIX).
: We want to run a PC database program (written mainly in CLIPPER) under UNIX.
: So we do not need graphics.
: What programs are available for the different systems ? Is there anything 
: usefull realeased to the public domain ?

Check out the comp.os.linux group.  There a DOS emulator for Linux.  It is
currently in Alpha but people have reported running stuff like Lotus under
it successfully.  I don't know if it is PD or Copylefted.
-- 
Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155  (206)FOR-UNIX
>>> Publishers of pocket references for UNIX, C, VI, Emacs, Ksh, MS-DOS, ... <<<
     ...!ssc!fyl or fyl@ssc.com            (206)527-3385
Newsgroups: comp.unix,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.admin
From: regn@informatik.uni-ulm.de (Robert Regn)
Subject: Wer schreibt ein Buch ueber das UNIX-System ?
Keywords: Prozesse, Kern. Systemarchitektur
Organization: University of Ulm, Germany
Distribution: de
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 17:26:38 GMT


Sorry for the people who don't understand german, the subject is:
Who is writing a book about the UNIX-System
and because this article is only directed to german people, i
continue in german.

Ich suche jemanden, der ein Buch ueber die Systemarchitektur von UNIX
schreiben moechte (bzw. schon dabei ist) - aehnlich dem  'Bach' oder
'Leffler .. ' - nur kompakter.
Fuer dieses Thema habe ich 2 Kapitel als Ergaenzung ferig, die
verteilte UNIX-Betriebssysteme und Mach zum Inhalt haben.
Ich poste das hier, weil mein urspruenglich vorgesehehener Co-Autor
fuer den UNIX-Systemarchitektur-Teil seine Zusage nicht eingehalten hat.

In diesem Buch sollte UNIX nicht an der Oberflaeche (fuer den Anwender)
beschrieben werden - davon gibt es genug Buecher - sondern die Interna, z.B
Standardbibliothek, Filesystem, Prozesse, Unterbrechungen, Synchronisation,
Scheduling, Swapping & Paging, Signale.
Fuer diesen Stoff ist mein Text (Umfang 80 Seiten bei 12pt Schriftgroesse)
als Ausblick auf die Zukunft zurechtgeschneidert. Das Ziel waere dann,
baldmoeglichst, spaetenstens bis Sommer ein Buch mit 160 - 200 Seiten
gemeinsam herauszubringen.

E-mail Verbindung ist natuerlich unabdingbar.
-- 
	Robert Regn				University of Ulm, Germany
	regn@informatik.uni-ulm.de
Xref: sparky comp.unix.misc:4917 alt.amateur-comp:568
From: jar@solva.ifi.uio.no (Jo Are Rosland)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,alt.amateur-comp
Subject: Re: What makes Unix Special?
Date: 11 Jan 93 17:11:44 GMT
	<1992Dec31.175557.18716@cs.unca.edu> <1993Jan1.013430.16243@netcom.com>
	<mckeeveb.725854823@sfu.ca>
	<1993Jan9.191046.16435@black.toppoint.de>
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
X-Md4-Signature: 0232e49fbad457b095f02833e8831ede
Originator: jar@solva.ifi.uio.no

In article <1993Jan9.191046.16435@black.toppoint.de> Kristian Koehntopp writes:
   X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 1992 Kristian Koehntopp -- All rights reserved.
		    Reproduktion, auch auszugsweise, ausserhalb elektronischer,
		    nichtkommerzieller Datennetze nur mit ausdruecklichem,
		    schriftlichem Einverstaendnis des Autors.

Like it or not, Kristian, it's actually 1993 now!

--
Jo Are Rosland
jar@ifi.uio.no
From: pechter@ocpt.ccur.com (Bill Pechter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: What makes Unix Special?
Date: 1 Jan 93 00:01:18 GMT
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corp.,Information Services


In article <31DEC199210495450@author.gsfc.nasa.gov> rkoehler@author.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bob Koehler) writes:
>I still haven't decided whether I like RSX or UNIX better, unless I'll be doing
>real-time.

I think Unix is easier to deal with.   I'm an old DEC guy and I never warmed
up to RSX11 until M+.  I preferred RT11 and RSTS to RSX.  Now IAS was
interesting.

>
>And I'll still take VMS over UNIX any day.  VMS owes some of its human
>interface concepts to UNIX, and both should learn of few new tricks from each
>other.
>

The major advantage of Unix over VMS is it's redirection...  Also the device
independant nature of i/o.  Also the directory structure.

VMS has the file structure (more resilient than SVR1-3 and even the UCB
fast file system).  The easier command language to learn (if not to code 
in).  Better integrated networking (Berkeley learned a lot on developing 
rcp from decnet's copy node::file.

VMS has better error recovery due to tighter integration of hardware
and software (this costs a lot in portability).


Bill
(looking for a VMS  clone to go on my 386 along with my Unix clone)





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From: cq267@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeremy Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: SLIP set-up
Date: 8 Jan 1993 01:08:58 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: cq267@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeremy Fox)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu



OK, here we go. I am primarily a Macintosh user. I have never posted to
comp.unix before and since I see no comm forum like they have for
Macintoshes, I am posting here.  If someone knows of a more appropriate
place for this message to be posted, please email me and I'll repost.

Anyways, what I want to do is to install a SLIP driver and whatever else
is needed on a UNIX machine so I can dial in and use Macintosh programs
that emulate UNIX ones (FTP etc.)  The people who run the UNIX machine
don't seem very up on how SLIP works, so I turned here.  I believe the
machine is running UNIX Release 5, version 3.2.  Snce it is a 386
machine, it may be running Xenix (the login sequence displays a
Microsoft Copyright).  The man did say it was release 5, though, so that
is what I'm going on.  What I would like to know is what files should I
ftp from what sites and how I would go about installing them.  I can
deal with tar and shar files, but I'm a little murky on C compilers.  
Yes, we already have a working progam that allows modem logins.  I also
can handle the Mac side of the SLIP connection.  What I need to know is
the UNIX side.

I will appreciate any information, no matter how vague, that can point
me in the right direction. Thanks!

Jeremy Fox
cq267@cleveland.Freenet.Edu
Xref: sparky comp.unix.misc:4877 comp.sys.novell:11254
From: ti@bazooka.amb.org (Ti Kan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Novell to buy USL !?
Date: 8 Jan 93 06:29:21 GMT
Reply-To: ti@bazooka.UUCP (Ti Kan)
Followup-To: comp.unix.misc
Organization: AMB Research Labs, Sunnyvale, CA.

In article <1i8a0sINNh0b@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
>In article <C0AMMu.Lwq@queernet.org> rogerk@queernet.org (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:
>>since 1984.  UnixWare *is* UNIX.  Nothing's missing; you simply can
>>do things without spelling out commands on a ouija board *IF* *YOU*
>>*CHOOSE* *TO*...
>
>Unfortunately this isn't true.  There are no on-line manpages, for
>example, and I'm not even sure that you can get printed manpages.  I
>didn't examine UnixWare much further to discover what else was
>missing; for the purposes for which we were evaluating UnixWare, that
>was enough to kill it.

Since UnixWare is essentially UNIX SVR4.2 + NetWare protocol support,
the standard manuals for SVR4.2 will apply to UnixWare equally well
as they do to generic USL SVR4.2 (except, of course, the NetWare stuff).

The USL SVR4.2 books from Prentice Hall should be hitting the
bookshelves shortly, if not already.

-Ti
-- 
    ///  Ti Kan                vorsprung durch technik
   ///   AMB Research Laboratories, Sunnyvale, CA. USA
  ///    ti@amb.org
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: conover@netcom.com (John Conover)
Subject: full text database
Keywords: full text database
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 06:40:25 GMT

Does anyone know of a text document retrieval program (full text database)
that uses a data dictionary, (containing a list of all unique words in
a text file heirachy,) and an extensible hash (perhaps dbm, or the
gnu dbm, gdbm) to reference the files in the heirachy containing any
word on demand? Is the source available?

The usage would be to query the system for the name of all files that
contain a certain word, (or words, perhaps with logical operations.)

Any help, direction or opinions would be welcome ...
Thanks,
	john@netcom.com

Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: zbig@wariat.org (Zbigniew J. Tyrlik)
Subject: Re: GNU C & comp. for Interactive
Followup-To: comp.unix.misc
Reply-To: zbig@wariat.org (Zbigniew J. Tyrlik)
Organization: Akademia Pana Kleksa, Public Access Uni* Site
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 20:17:29 GMT

As quoted from <HKARHUNE.93Jan6164347@hydra.Helsinki.FI> by hkarhune@hydra.Helsinki.FI (Heikki Karhunen):

+---------------
> 	Finland
> Distribution: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.msdos

There is no such distribution. Please, use proper distribution in
the future - if it sound strange, read news.announce.newusers first.

Also, you have an empty onle in the header - loks like either your
newsreader is broken, or your sysadm managed something really
unique. 

> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 14:43:47 GMT
> Lines: 18
> 



> I have a need for a C compiler for Interactive Unix. Preferably newer
> than 1.4, with all the other needed thingies (as, ld, make).
> 
> The system in which I plan to use the said compiler has none at the
> moment, so I need to get the necessary libraries and headers too.
> 

Well, you can obtain it over the phone from nearest dealer.
Copying libraries and headers is a violation of copyright law. 
Sorry, but you have following solutions: 
	1) purchase Software Developoers Kit ( I know it is expensive)
	and then use gcc as compiler; 
	2) compile software on another machine where you have 
	all tools, and then ftp binaries to target machine. 

> If these can be found via anonymous FTP, I'd appreciate hearing from
> where.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 

Well, I know that it is not best solution. If you want system
without this restrictions, pick Linux or BSD386.


> 	Heikki Karhunen
> --
> /-----------------------------+-----------------------------------------\
> | hkarhune@hydra.helsinki.fi  | There is always a job for a theoretical |
> | Heikki.Karhunen@helsinki.fi | physicist -- at least in theory.        |
> \-----------------------------+-----------------------------------------/
> 


_zjt
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From: oracle@osc.aur.gov (Don Worthen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: USL Version Naming Standard
Keywords: USL
Date: 8 Jan 93 22:53:24 GMT
Reply-To: oracle@osc.aur.gov
Organization: Dennis, Inc.

We have recently obtained a version of USL.  It is suppose to run on an AST 486/33 system.

When we enter uname -a we receive the following:  (name) (name) 4.0 4.0T i386 386/AT.

Our confusion is centered around the other USL products and their names (i.e., Destiny 4.2).
We understand that we are suppose to have version USL SVR4 Version 4.  The question is...
according to the uname results, do we really have what we are suppose to?  

Secondly, is there any significance about the difference in the machine hardware (486/33)
and what USL SV-386R4.0 Version 4.0T. is expecting? 

Anyone having some knowledge about USL and its flavors would be greatly appreciated.  
I'm not certain if this is of public interest so an email back to me is fine.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: crigler@cs.ucf.edu (James Crigler)
Subject: Re: What rc stands for in .cshrc
Organization: University of Central Florida
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:08:25 GMT

peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:

>RC starts for "restart commands" or "run commands" (depending on whose
>etymology you believe).

Funny, I've always (in my own rather vain mind) thought it was
"runtime configuration."

Jim Crigler
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: vlcek@mtl.mit.edu (Jim Vlcek)
Subject: Re: X11 and Windows NT (was: Windows NT Report)
Organization: EPI Software Systems, Chorus Corporation
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 03:48:43 GMT

williams@nssdcs.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Williams) writes:

>Microsoft is the only player without X11 support.  In my opinion, if
>they shun X11, they will do so at their own peril.

We Unix lovers had better just face up to the obvious:

  Microsoft has the power to enforce whatever standards it damn well
  pleases.  When it comes to windowing systems, that standard is 
  Microsoft Windows.

Here's the scenario:  a typical installation, anywhere in the US
(including academic installations, where Unix is strongest).  For
every one Unix box using X, you've got ten to a hundred PCs running
Windows.  No matter what the technical merits, the impression in the
minds of most people is going to be that "those Unix machines run some
weird windowing system that no one can talk to."  Plus, everything
associated with those Unix machines cost ten to a hundred times as
much as the comparable item for the Windows boxes.

Unix will live, but only at the higher strata of computation (large
servers, transaction processors, &c).  Microsoft is going to suffocate
Unix (and probably OS/2 as well) right out of the desktop market.

Yes, eventually the Microsoft monopoly will crumble, just as did the
great IBM.  But folks, that's going to take years.  Unix vendors and
users had better start making plans for the immediate future, which is
- like it or not - owned lock, stock and barrel by Microsoft.

Jim Vlcek
vlcek@epimbe.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: cq377@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David C. Williss)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: X11 and Windows NT (was: Windows NT Report)
Date: 10 Jan 1993 05:37:25 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: cq377@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David C. Williss)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, vlcek@mtl.mit.edu (Jim Vlcek) says:

>williams@nssdcs.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Williams) writes:
>
>>Microsoft is the only player without X11 support.  In my opinion, if
>>they shun X11, they will do so at their own peril.
>
Actually, Microsoft can't really stop it.  We've written an X Server for
Microsoft Windows 3.1 and plan to do NT eventually.  Of course,
everything it does has to go through MS Windows, which makes things
slower than they need to be, but it works.  It just opens one big window
(Microsoft type) and makes that the "screen".  The only real problem
is that Microsoft windows isn't really a multitasking operating system
in the same sense that Unix is.  Unix is preemptive, where as in
Microsoft, a program has to give up control to let other proceses run.

-- 
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From: msp@msen.com (Jerry Foster)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Print graphics files
Date: 8 Jan 1993 21:42:36 GMT
Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
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From: cudal@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Phil Spruce)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: IBM VM/CMS Tape Dump Format
Date: 7 Jan 1993 17:42:37 -0000
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk

    I have numerous IBM mag tapes written in VM/CMS Tape Dump Format 
which need to be read by a Unix system.
 
Does anyone know of any Unix software that manages to read (and decipher)
this format ?
 
    If you do please could you email me ?
 
                                     Much obliged
 
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Subject: Re: What new innovation, software or products do you want to see?
Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:07:14 GMT

In article <sehari.726179763@du139-210.cc.iastate.edu> sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari) writes:

|What type of new innovation, software or products do you want to be
|introduced to the market place.  No answer is stupid.  The things
|that might be unachievable to you, might be very easy to produce
|by others.  You could become part of history by initiating the process of
|innovation.

I'd like to see a news filter that would drop articles like
sehari.726179763@du139-210.cc.iastate.edu from my newsfeed, so that I
don't have to read requests from people wanting others to do all their
thinking for them.

|P.S.  This message is being automatically posted to all unix wide bbs'. 
|This post does not mean that I approve or disapprove this newsgroup.  Also,
|the moderator of the moderated newsgroups, such as rec.humor.funny, should 
|decide if they want this posting in their newsgroup.

I'd like another program that would automatically bounce automatically
generated postings back to the author, then delete their account. Such
a program would be very popular on the net, I believe.....

-- 
Gary Heston    SCI Systems, Inc.  gary@sci34hub.sci.com   site admin
The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither.
"Data sheet: HSN-3000 Nuclear Event Detector. The [NED] senses the gamma
radiation pulse [from a] nuclear weapon." As if we wouldn't notice...
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.sys.novell