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From: shobhana@shakti.ncst.ernet.in (Shobhana)
Subject: Re: WHATZIT?
Organization: National Centre for Software Technology, Bombay
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 12:42:33 GMT

In article <7175@transfer.stratus.com> dswartz@sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber) writes:
>In article <v4*1H3i=3a@atlantis.psu.edu>, barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:
>> In article <7169@transfer.stratus.com> dswartz@sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber) writes:
>> >Please keep this kind of crap out of this newsgroup.  If you really feel
>> >compelled to run off at the mouth about how wonderful Sequoia is, feel
>> >to suggest creating comp.sys.sequoia, where you will be able to post to
>> >your heart's content.
>> 
>> Maybe Sequoia doesn't want to get as bad of a reputation as Stratus does for
>> creating a newsgroup in which the overwhelming majority of votes came from
>> Stratus employees?
>
...
>inane.  And by the way, what is this "bad reputation"?  Where did you hear
>about it?  I certainly hadn't.

Me neither. In fact, if anything I have heard *plenty* of good things about
Stratus' reliability in general---certainly the architecture that they
employ to achieve fault tolerance is, IMHO, superior to anything that the
competition has to offer.

In fact, the only thing I would fault about Stratus is the pitifully
inadequate and starved program development environment offered by their
VOS operating system---but then, you have a choice of using FTX. Anyone
worked extensively on FTX, BTW? I would be interested in knowing what
you think of Stratus' implementation.

Rajappa Iyer
( I am using a friend's account incidentally, so please confine replies
  to the newsgroup )

Newsgroups: comp.sys.stratus
From: pearson_steven@tandem.com (Steven R. Pearson)
Subject: Re: WHATZIT?
Organization: Tandem Computers Inc.,  Cupertino, CA
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:14:10 GMT

In article <v4*1H3i=3a@atlantis.psu.edu>, barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:
> Maybe Sequoia doesn't want to get as bad of a reputation as Stratus does for
> creating a newsgroup in which the overwhelming majority of votes came from
> Stratus employees?

Do you harangue every new newsgroup regarding the composition of their
readership?  GET A LIFE!
-srp
From: nazir@sw.stratus.com (Meer Nazir)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.stratus
Subject: Re: WHATZIT?
Date: 13 Oct 92 17:31:34 GMT
Reply-To: nazir@jets.sw.stratus.edu
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc.

In article <1beg0iINNpes@bigboote.WPI.EDU>, beuf@wpi.WPI.EDU (Richard J Fuller) writes:
> I really doubt many people will ever read this but here goes
> 
  STUFF DELETED
> 
> I would take a SEQUOIA Series 400 before a STRATUS anyday!

So what are you doing at WPI. Does Sequoia has an internet site to post to
this newsgroup. Gee I did'nt know that that WPI has computer wizards too!

Take it easy dude. (;-))

MEER NAZIR

Note:= Nothing in above post reflects any opinion of my employer. 
Any opinions or suggesstions are purely mine.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.stratus
From: rod@unislc.uucp (Robert Despain)
Subject: Re: WHATZIT?
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 01:20:58 GMT

Richard J Fuller (beuf@wpi.WPI.EDU) wrote:
: I really doubt many people will ever read this but here goes
: 
: A Stratus is a Fault-Tolerant Computer that is on the ofder of
: $500,000 - $5,000,000 and is most likely to be found in a 
: bank, a mail order house, or an airline (stuff like that)
: 
: I am currently working at another place SEQUOIA which makes 
: computers for this same market.!!!
: 
: I would take a SEQUOIA Series 400 before a STRATUS anyday!

Hey!  As a service to the net, I'll run a fault-tolerant
BAKE-OFF!

I saw someone from tandem, a pioneer in this field, I believe,
posting to the group so they can get in on this too.  Everyone
send me a machine -- with software -- and I'll summarize later
(I, of course, get to keep the machines and software for whatever
purposes I want.)

Disclaimers:

1) When I was a programming cub, working for Northern Telecom/
Sycor in Ann  Arbor, Tandem came in and hired away a raft of
talented people -- from sales to engineering.

2)  When I was working for Evans & Sutherland, stratus hired one
of the best programmers working for E&S to come work for them.

3) If SEQUOIA wants to come and wire and air-condition my house
so that it can accommodate all these computers, I'll let 'em
(makes up for 1 and 2).

4)  I've been working for Unisys for less than a year, so I don't
know if we make a fault-tolerant computer or not.  If we do, then,
forget 1 thru 3 and, hey, Richard, I'll take a fault-tolerant
Unisys over any of this other stuff any day (or Unisys can just
add some fraction of the cost to my next paycheck).

Cheers,
R.O.
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R.O. Despain                  |
Mature Products Group         |  Internet: rod@unislc.slc.unisys.com
(801) 594-4633                |      UUCP: ...!{sun, uunet}!unislc!rod
Newsgroups: comp.sys.stratus
From: roth@feline.cs.wisc.edu (Bill Roth)
Subject: Human resources address
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 13:42:55 GMT

Could someone send me the human resources address for the CAC? I would
like to find out about job opportunities there.
-- 

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Bill Roth, University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Dept.
Internet: roth@cs.wisc.edu. BITNET: ROTH@WISCPSL. HEPNET: PSL::ROTH

Newsgroups: comp.sys.stratus
From: rmwise@mcigate.apdev.mci.com (Bob_Wise)
Subject: Re: WHATZIT?
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 20:57:51 GMT
Organization: MCI

In article <Bw5xyx.6G5@shakti.ncst.ernet.in> shobhana@shakti.ncst.ernet.in (Shobhana) writes:
>In fact, the only thing I would fault about Stratus is the pitifully
>inadequate and starved program development environment offered by their
>VOS operating system---but then, you have a choice of using FTX. Anyone
>worked extensively on FTX, BTW? I would be interested in knowing what
>you think of Stratus' implementation.
>

When I worked for Stratus, I was involved somewhat at one time with
both FTX I (5.3 on 680x0) and FTX II (5.4 on ix60).

I would recommend the 5.4 product if you have the choice.

I understand that both FTX systems have very good MTBF figures.  I
have even heard rumors that the FTX MTBF figures are better than the
VOS MBTF figures.  If this rumor is true, I would believe that the
better MTBF is a result of a more elegant OS.

VOS is a small house that has had major additions so many times that
its cleanliness of design leaves a lot to be desired.  It suffers from
featuritis combined with a lack of facilities (such as pipes, filters,
and stdout, stderr, stdin) that allow the regular combination of small
simple tools to preform more complex tasks.  VOS performance also
suffers as a result.

Have you heard the joke about what the final release of VOS will look
like?  It will be a single command with an option to do anything you
want.  :-)

Unix, of course, has been increasingly suffering from featuritis as
well.  Go Cloud 9!

Unlike Unix, VOS is more optimized for throughput than for response
time, which developers hate.

For VOS development, I recommend a cross-development environment based
on Unix workstations.  (I provide consulting services to companies
wishing to boost developer productivity on VOS.)

-Bob
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From: bill@hood.tandem.com (norcott_bill@tandem.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.stratus
Subject: Re: WHATZIT?
Date: 16 Oct 92 22:02:24 GMT
Reply-To: norcott_bill@tandem.com (Bill Norcott)
Organization: Tandem Computers, Inc.

In article <1992Oct16.184443.7140@mdivax1.uucp>, robinson@mdivax1.uucp (Jim Robinson) writes:
|> is apparently SVR4 (at least according to another article). Has Tandem
|> announced when their SVR4 offering will be ready? 

It is already shipping to customers.

-- 
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Bill Norcott			GUARDIAN POSIX project
Tandem Computers, Inc.		
10600 N. Tantau Avenue		PHONE:  (408) 285-3253
Cupertino, CA   95014		EMAIL: norcott_bill@tandem.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.stratus
From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr)
Subject: Re: WHATZIT?
Organization: Penn State Population Research Institute
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 14:31:40 GMT

In article <7169@transfer.stratus.com> dswartz@sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber) writes:
>Please keep this kind of crap out of this newsgroup.  If you really feel
>compelled to run off at the mouth about how wonderful Sequoia is, feel
>to suggest creating comp.sys.sequoia, where you will be able to post to
>your heart's content.

Maybe Sequoia doesn't want to get as bad of a reputation as Stratus does for
creating a newsgroup in which the overwhelming majority of votes came from
Stratus employees?

--Dave
-- 
System Administrator, Population Research Institute    barr@pop.psu.edu
From: dswartz@sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.stratus
Subject: Re: WHATZIT?
Date: 13 Oct 92 15:13:10 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.

In article <v4*1H3i=3a@atlantis.psu.edu>, barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:
> In article <7169@transfer.stratus.com> dswartz@sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber) writes:
> >Please keep this kind of crap out of this newsgroup.  If you really feel
> >compelled to run off at the mouth about how wonderful Sequoia is, feel
> >to suggest creating comp.sys.sequoia, where you will be able to post to
> >your heart's content.
> 
> Maybe Sequoia doesn't want to get as bad of a reputation as Stratus does for
> creating a newsgroup in which the overwhelming majority of votes came from
> Stratus employees?

And why is this bad?  After all, we're not talking about a popularity poll
for Pete's sake!  Many people here at Stratus find out what's going on (and
ask questions) via news.  Why should a Stratus-related newsgroup be any
different?  Did you object to it's creation?  If so, why?  I wasn't aware of
anyone holding a gun to your head and making you read it.  And given that
many (possibly most) of our customers aren't on the Internet, why would the
resulting vote majority being Stratus employees be a surprise?  I could see
your point if we were voting for comp.sys.stratus vs some other newsgroup,
in which case ballot-box stuffing might be an issue; as it is, it merely seems
inane.  And by the way, what is this "bad reputation"?  Where did you hear
about it?  I certainly hadn't.


> --Dave
> -- 
> System Administrator, Population Research Institute    barr@pop.psu.edu

-- 

Dan S.
From: jbarnett@wpi.WPI.EDU (Jonathan R Barnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.stratus
Subject: nationsbank
Date: 14 Oct 92 06:59:41
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu

last night I heard that Stratus had sold some machines to Nationsbank
and that this was an important sale.  Can someone fill me in on the
details?  Thanks.
From: norcott_bill@tandem.com (Bill Norcott)
Subject: Re: Startus vs Sequoia vs Tandem (was Re: WHATZIT?)
Reply-To: norcott_bill@tandem.com (Bill Norcott)
Organization: Tandem Computers, Inc.
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 17:45:22 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.065804.1256@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, eajjs@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (john.sottile) writes:

|> >How about Tandem? Anybody have any comments on it in comparison to Stratus
|> >and Sequoia. We have a product running on Sun SPARCstation that we will
|> >probably be wanting to port to a fault tolerant UNIX environment. Thus, I
|> >would be interested in hearing comments from anyone who has used the UNIX
|> >versions of these systems. We have *no* interest in guardian and other
|> >proprietary fault tolerant OSes.

The Integrity S2 product uses triple modular redundancy in the CPUs.
There are 3 CPUs which compare results and use a "voting" scheme.  If
any one of them gives results different than the other two, the odd
one is automatically removed from the system.  

You may not be aware that Tandem has announced that the GUARDIAN
operating system is being made conformant with the IEEE/ISO POSIX
1003.1 & 1003.2 standards as well as the X/Open XPG4 standard and the
OSF Distributed Computing Environment.  This means that XPG4 applications
will compile link and run on GUARDIAN just as easily as on a UNIX platform.
A lot of software houses that have shied away from GUARDIAN because it
has a proprietary API will be be able to easily port to GUARDIAN when it
has the international-standard open systems API.

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Bill Norcott			GUARDIAN POSIX project
Tandem Computers, Inc.		
10600 N. Tantau Avenue		PHONE:  (408) 285-3253
Cupertino, CA   95014		EMAIL: norcott_bill@tandem.com


Newsgroups: comp.sys.stratus
From: choy@skorpio.usask.ca (I am a terminator.)
Subject: Re: Whatizit?
Organization: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 15:09:39 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.080214.15853@nwnexus.WA.COM>, David Ruggiero <osiris@halcyon.com> writes:
|> choy@skorpio.usask.ca (I am a terminator.) writes:
|> 
|> >S     W     I
|> > T     H     S   I
|> >  R     A         T
|> >   A     T         ?
|> >    T
|> >     U
|> >      S
|> 
|> If you have to ask, you can't afford it. Trust me.

Who say I got to pay for it?

Henry Choy
choy@cs.usask.ca


There'll be no doubt in your mind
you'll believe everything I'm saying   -- Jesus he knows me
if wanna get closer to him                    by Genesis 
get on your knees and start paying
Newsgroups: comp.sys.stratus
From: tmm@world.std.com (Tom M Moravansky)
Subject: Migrating from VOS 10.4 to 11.5
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 17:12:08 GMT

We are developing a large application using C and Sybase on a Stratus/VOS
system.  We are using TPS for source code control.  The application makes
use of shared virtual memory, queues, and numerous system calls.

Does anyone have any experience migrating an application from 10.4 to 11.5?
Anything we should watch out for?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.stratus
From: robinson@mdivax1.uucp (Jim Robinson)
Subject: Startus vs Sequoia vs Tandem (was Re: WHATZIT?)
Reply-To: robinson@mdd.comm.mot.com (Jim Robinson)
Organization: Motorola - Mobile Data Division; Richmond, BC
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: 14 Oct 92 00:17:30 GMT

Vasu Nugala (vasu@anolis.bnr.usu.edu) wrote:
>In article <1992Oct13.152416.19562@access.usask.ca>, choy@skorpio.usask.ca (I am a terminator.) writes:
>|> 
>|> In article <1beg0iINNpes@bigboote.WPI.EDU>, beuf@wpi.WPI.EDU (Richard J Fuller) writes:
>|> |> A Stratus is a Fault-Tolerent Computer that is on the ofder of
>|> |> $500,000 - $5,000,000 and is most likely to be found in a 
>|> |> bank, a mail order house, or an airline (stuff like that)
>|> 
>|> backups and stuff. If a computer can recover by itself, I'd expect
>|> to have real time recovery as if nothing had happened even if
>|> a lot of things are happening. I'd expect to be able to test the
>|> computer rigorously. Like random drug testing for athletes. As a
>|> last ditch measure, I want insurance. Minimal service delay is a must.
>|> I want to be able to shift the most essential tasks to another system
>|> 
>|> What's the difference? The difference is one tastes better! (Pepsi ad)
>|> 
>|> What's the difference between a Stratus and a Sequoia?
>|> 
>
>  From the brochures and personal contacts, I think recovery is almost in
>real time. Also it (Stratus) provides you with minimum service delay because 
>of the architectural implementation. Let me explain as briefly as possible
>about the architecture: it has almost everything (!) redundant, i.e., contains
>two boards for every board and two CPUs for every CPU. And processing is done 
>parallely by both the boards and all the CPUs simultaneously, and if one of
>the CPU is faulty, that board stops functioning and the other takes over processing. In the meantime, the malfunctioning is reported online to the customer assistance centers for the speedy replacement of the cards etc...
>  Well, this is all about Stratus. I don't know anything about Sequoia.

How about Tandem? Anybody have any comments on it in comparison to Stratus
and Sequoia. We have a product running on Sun SPARCstation that we will
probably be wanting to port to a fault tolerant UNIX environment. Thus, I
would be interested in hearing comments from anyone who has used the UNIX
versions of these systems. We have *no* interest in guardian and other
proprietary fault tolerant OSes.

Thanks
-- 
Jim Robinson
robinson@mdd.comm.mot.com
{ubc-cs!van-bc,uunet}!mdivax1!robinson
From: ti@bazooka.amb.org (Ti Kan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.stratus
Subject: Re: Startus vs Sequoia vs Tandem (was Re: WHATZIT?)
Date: 16 Oct 92 07:51:02 GMT
Reply-To: ti@bazooka.UUCP (Ti Kan)
Organization: AMB Research Labs, Sunnyvale, CA.

Since no one else has commented on the following, I'll bite.

In article <1992Oct14.065804.1256@cbfsb.cb.att.com> eajjs@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (john.sottile) writes:
>IBM/Stratus is looking at the PA-Risc also.  I think thaty they threw out the
>idea of the ALPHA Chip.  I believe that they are currently
>Intel i860 RISC Based.  I know this platform runs IBM's VOS Operating
>System, but I have heard that it runs or will run some dialect of UNIX(r) --
>probably Ultrix.

I won't comment on your wording "IBM/Stratus", whatever that implies,
BUT, VOS is a Stratus proprietary operating system.  It is not developed
by IBM.  However, since IBM OEMs Stratus systems as the IBM System/88,
you can therefore buy an "IBM" system running Stratus' VOS.

Stratus systems also run FTX, Stratus' port of UNIX System V.  The older
Motorola 68K-based systems run FTX 1.x, Stratus' version of SVR3 with many
BSD features.  The newer Intel i860-based systems run FTX 2.x, which is
SVR4.  FTX is NOT based on Ultrix.

Stratus has announced that its future systems will be based on the
HP PA-RISC processor.

-Ti
-- 
    ///  Ti Kan                vorsprung durch technik
   ///   AMB Research Laboratories, Sunnyvale, CA. USA
  ///    ti@amb.org
 //////  ...!{decwrl,synopsys,tandem,tsoft,ultra}!sgiblab!bazooka!ti
///      ...!{uunet,sun,apple,sco}!altos!bazooka!ti
Newsgroups: comp.sys.stratus
From: David Ruggiero <osiris@halcyon.com>
Subject: Re: Whatizit?
Originator: osiris@halcyon.com
Reply-To: osiris@halcyon.halcyon.com (David Ruggiero)
Organization: [none - why fight entropy?]
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 08:02:14 GMT

choy@skorpio.usask.ca (I am a terminator.) writes:

>S     W     I
> T     H     S   I
>  R     A         T
>   A     T         ?
>    T
>     U
>      S

If you have to ask, you can't afford it. Trust me.


-- 
David Ruggiero  (osiris@halcyon.com)      Seattle, WA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.stratus
From: dswartz@sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.stratus
Subject: Re: WHATZIT?
Date: 13 Oct 92 13:44:45 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.

In article <1beg0iINNpes@bigboote.WPI.EDU>, beuf@wpi.WPI.EDU (Richard J Fuller) writes:
> I really doubt many people will ever read this but here goes

[Mindless pro-Sequoia flag-waving drivel deleted]

Please keep this kind of crap out of this newsgroup.  If you really feel
compelled to run off at the mouth about how wonderful Sequoia is, feel
to suggest creating comp.sys.sequoia, where you will be able to post to
your heart's content.

-- 

Dan S.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.stratus
From: robinson@mdivax1.uucp (Jim Robinson)
Subject: Re: WHATZIT?
Reply-To: robinson@mdd.comm.mot.com (Jim Robinson)
Organization: Motorola - Mobile Data Division; Richmond, BC
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: 16 Oct 92 18:45:14 GMT

Shobhana (shobhana@shakti.ncst.ernet.in) wrote:
>In article <7175@transfer.stratus.com> dswartz@sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber) writes:
>>In article <v4*1H3i=3a@atlantis.psu.edu>, barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:
>>> In article <7169@transfer.stratus.com> dswartz@sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber) writes:
>>> >Please keep this kind of crap out of this newsgroup.  If you really feel
>>> >compelled to run off at the mouth about how wonderful Sequoia is, feel
>>> >to suggest creating comp.sys.sequoia, where you will be able to post to
>>> >your heart's content.
>>> 
>>> Maybe Sequoia doesn't want to get as bad of a reputation as Stratus does for
>>> creating a newsgroup in which the overwhelming majority of votes came from
>>> Stratus employees?
>>
>...
>>inane.  And by the way, what is this "bad reputation"?  Where did you hear
>>about it?  I certainly hadn't.
>
>Me neither. In fact, if anything I have heard *plenty* of good things about
>Stratus' reliability in general---certainly the architecture that they
>employ to achieve fault tolerance is, IMHO, superior to anything that the
>competition has to offer.
>
>In fact, the only thing I would fault about Stratus is the pitifully
>inadequate and starved program development environment offered by their
>VOS operating system---but then, you have a choice of using FTX. Anyone
>worked extensively on FTX, BTW? I would be interested in knowing what
>you think of Stratus' implementation.

I would be interested in hearing comments as well re FTX. The latest FTX
is apparently SVR4 (at least according to another article). Has Tandem
announced when their SVR4 offering will be ready? 
-- 
Jim Robinson
robinson@mdd.comm.mot.com
{ubc-cs!van-bc,uunet}!mdivax1!robinson

Newsgroups: comp.sys.stratus
From: choy@skorpio.usask.ca (I am a terminator.)
Subject: Re: WHATZIT?
Organization: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 15:24:16 GMT

In article <1beg0iINNpes@bigboote.WPI.EDU>, beuf@wpi.WPI.EDU (Richard J Fuller) writes:
|> I really doubt many people will ever read this but here goes
|> 
|> A Stratus is a Fault-Tolerent Computer that is on the ofder of
|> $500,000 - $5,000,000 and is most likely to be found in a 
|> bank, a mail order house, or an airline (stuff like that)
|> 
|> I am currently working at another place SEQUOIA which makes 
|> computers for this same market.!!!
|> 
|> I would take a SEQUOIA Series 400 before a STRATUS anyday!

Gee, it's nice to know that someone is interested in keeping computers
user friendly to the point of tolerating the faults of users :-). It's
a kind of idiot proofing then. For the designer's sake.

What does $500,000 get you? I could care less if the computer I'm
running on goes down because I can keep saving the state and have
backups and stuff. If a computer can recover by itself, I'd expect
to have real time recovery as if nothing had happened even if
a lot of things are happening. I'd expect to be able to test the
computer rigorously. Like random drug testing for athletes. As a
last ditch measure, I want insurance. Minimal service delay is a must.
I want to be able to shift the most essential tasks to another system
just in case. With any computer, I'd like to kick ass.

What's the difference? The difference is one tastes better! (Pepsi ad)

What's the difference between a Stratus and a Sequoia?

Henry Choy
choy@cs.usask.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.stratus
From: rich@progress.COM (Rich Lenihan)
Subject: enabling NIS on FTX 2.1.0.1
Keywords: FTX NIS
Organization: Progress Software Corp.
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 18:08:51 GMT

I've got a Stratus system running FTX 2.1.0.1.  What steps do I need
to take to get it to read NIS maps from an NIS master (a Sun)?  The
standard NIS commands (ypwhich, ypcat) return the correct information,
but other commands (login, for example) don't appear to be referencing
those maps.

Also, what about the /etc/shadow file?  We'd like users to be able to 
change their password across the NIS domain with one command (like
yppasswd).  Is this possible?

Sorry if this has come up before but this is my first Stratus.  Be gentle.

-Rich

--
Rich Lenihan                 UUCP: mit-eddie!progress!rich
Progress Software Corp.      Internet: rich@progress.com