Bell Tech 386 SysVr3 (really a put-down of Xenix)

[Dave Hammond]

In article <936 at cerebus.UUCP> ronc at cerebus.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian) writes:
>It could be that you don't see a lot of traffic on problems with Xenix
>because a lot of people struggling with Xenix don't have access to
>Usenet because they can't get the gol-durned uucp to work.  When you're
>effectively cut off from the rest of humanity, your voice is small and
>thin indeed.

I have installed a great many Xenix 2.1.3 and 2.2.x systems, and have NEVER
had a uucp problem that wasn't related to either a hardware problem
(modem ctrl signals don't do what dial() wants) or a configuration
problem (permissions, etc).

Admittedly, most of these sites use uucp inhouse on a hardwire, but at
least 1 machine at each site has an outside uucp connection. We play
host to every Xenix site we manage and bounce mail amongst our
customers and the outside world.  The modems vary, but all are
generic, cheap, internal Hayes-compatible 2400 baud units.

I will state that the 2.2.x uucp is a far-sight better than 2.1.3,
and the Trailblazer upgrade option (which this very same net recently
apprised me of -- and I fell in LOVE with) contains all the nifty
L.sys scripting features that you are in need of.

>As for support, we called SCO today with a trivial question about
>their uucp, and they scheduled an answer for next Tuesday.  The
>question was, how do you send a string in your chat script with
>a space in it?  (Like "foo bar".)  If you write
>[...examples deleted...]
>From the documentation it appears to be impossible to either force
>a whitespace (tab or space, I don't care) in a chat script string
>or even send a string without a trailing carrage return.  This is
>a usable Unix?

See my above comment about the Trailblazer uucp upgrade. It allows
\c, \d, \nnn and all that stuff.

Boy, isn't it great to ask a question [I asked the same question last week],
get tons of net response, then answer the same question a week later
like an *authority* :-)

Dave Hammond
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