[ale] SCO

[Michael H. Warfield]

William Mahavier enscribed thusly:

> From ale-owner at cc.gatech.edu Tue Nov 12 11:38 EST 1996
> Jeff Barber writes:

> >Here're 3 reasons from one who used to run SCO but switched to Linux:
> >
> >Last time I checked, you don't get the source code with the SCO unix.
> >So what happens if you run into a problem?  Who you gonna call?  With
> >Linux, you can look for yourself, or post here or to one of the newsgroups
> >where people familiar with the source can provide answer.
> >
> I did try it. 1.1.59 umsdos. I loved it. Then I decided to upgrade
                       ^^^^^^ - Part of the problem...  :-(
> to 2.0.
> 
> X windows did not work. I need to upgrade to 3.2 and hope for the
> best.
> 
> I could not get my postcript printer to work without a lot of 
> reading. I got aps-filter and it did not work. I had an older
> version and did not know it. I still can't print ascii files,
> but after much reading I now know what to do to write a needed
> filter.
> 
> My fdformat will not work on several floppys all of which are
> new. I have no idea where to look to solve this. Nor did I get
> any help yet from this group on my recent post. I don't even know
> what nfo I should post to get help. man fdformat was no help.
> I grepped the linux faqs. I will look for a floppy howto and maybe
> the source for fdformat. 
> 
> **** 
>      I would appreciate any suggestions on what to try or read to
>      solve my fdformat problem
> *****
> So I am tempted to try SCO, hoping a stripped down version will
> work. I do not require a lot from linux/unix. I would like a 
> windowing system, a printer and a floppy for backup.

	You don't get the luxury of running SCO on top of the MS-Dog file
system like umsdos...

> And uucp. I haven't tried that yet.

> However, I will keep plugging for a while at least and hope things
> get better. They couldn't get worse. Besides, I enjoy learning what
> makes stuff tick. That is what I like about linux.

	If you when from kernel 1.1.59 to 2.0 in one fell swoop you have
ALOT to upgrade.  Just upgrading from 1.2.13 to 2.x (bypassing all of the
1.3.x development stuff) is pretty substantial.  You basically jumped a couple
of MAJOR releases.  On 1.1.59 you were probably running an a.out system.
The latest installs are ELF based.  I would strongly recommend that it's time
to reinstall.  I don't know what distribution you initially installed from
but just going from Slakware 2.x (a.out) to Slackware 3.x (ELF) you can
forget about the "upgrade" path.

> In the meantime I can use win95 for zmodem transfer, rlogins,
> editing and printing. Right now I am glad to have it.

	Mike
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