From: david@dynamix.com (David L Jarvis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1740 modes.
Date: 1 Sep 92 13:53:08 GMT
Organization: SOFTWARE / DYNAMIX
X-Received: by usenet.pa.dec.com; id AA01994; Tue, 1 Sep 92 07:22:56 -0700
X-Received: by inet-gw-2.pa.dec.com; id AA05765; Tue, 1 Sep 92 07:22:55 -0700
X-Received: from dynamix.UUCP by uu3.psi.com (5.65b/4.0.071791-PSI/PSINet)id AA23700; Tue, 1 Sep 92 10:21:48 -0400
X-Received: by dynamix.com (smail2.5c)id AA25841; 1 Sep 92 09:53:08 EDT (Tue)
X-To: comp.unix.xenix.sco.usenet (comp.unix.xenix.sco)
X-In-Reply-To: <BtsGqD.59M@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>; from "Marc Unangst" at Aug 30, 92 8:54 am
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]

> 
> In article <9208290830.AA18784@dynamix.com> david@dynamix.com (David L Jarvis) writes:
> >4: edit the file ad, change all occurences ad to eiad
> 
> Aiiiee!  No!

well for someone who spent a couple of hundred lines telling me how
atrocious my correspondence skill are, I'd have to say that "Aiiieee!"
ranks right up there with AIN'T ... 
 
> >support a call (this is a popular one with them), or pick up a recent SCO
> >mag where they wrote up these very same instructions ...
> 
> If those were the exact instructions from the issue of SCO Magazine
> (i.e., you had the magazine sitting next to you while you typed in the
> instructions, instead of reconstructing them from memory), then I

yes, the instructions ARE directly out of SCO magazine, which frequently 
publishes instructions straight from SCO technical support ... 
(but nice try at the cheap shot tho, you're getting better with each try)
HOWEVER --- (and I direct this to the fellow who first asked the question,
and any others who might ask questions in the future)  don't trust ME or
ANYONE on the net - check it out for yourself!!!   Call SCO or get SCO
magazine and verify it ... (repeated for those of you who failed to read
the same line in my original post)
so how about it Marc, again I'll challenge you, give SCO a call and ask
them what they suggest for making the change ... and then post the response
you get ...   

as for this not being the BEST way to do it, we could argue that till the
cows come home and it won't accomplish anything ... but I am interested in
learning the views of some of the more experienced folks out there, 
(Chip Rosenthal, Bill Davidsen, JP Radley, Bill Campbell, and all the
others out there I might have missed, but whose expertise, knowledge, and
wisdom I value and respect so greatly :-) )
so how about it guys, what do you think about this?  if this is wrong or
just not the best way to do the job, I do want to learn about it ...
(what Marc said doesn't make sense to me, because anyone who knows the
system would know that eiad is just the enhanced mode of the ad driver, so
I see no confusion there, but I'm open to discussion on it)

> would write a nasty letter to the editors of SCO Magazine.  This is
> *not* the way the ID subsystem is supposed to work.

again, I would ask you to show us the credentials and vast experience that
would give your statements an ounce of credence ... I'm not saying that you
can't possibly be correct, I'm saying offer more information and stop with
the bullsh*t opinions ...

> -- 
> Marc Unangst                | Real men don't make backups.  Real men never
> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us   | accidentally delete files that they're going
>                             | to need later.
       
well your .sig sure gives us some insight into YOUR computing philosophies
tell me, you would happen to be a college student would you?
(sorry, couldn't resist >:-\)

#----------------------------------------------------------------------#
#          David L. Jarvis                 SOFTWARE  /                 #
#          david@dynamix.com                       /  DYNAMIX          #
#----------------------------------------------------------------------#
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco