Copying DOS files to SCO UNIX

Tim Wright tim at delluk.uucp
Mon Sep 3 17:44:56 AEST 1990


In <1990Sep01.192523.25958 at turnkey.tcc.com> jackv at turnkey.tcc.com (Jack F. Vogel) writes:

>In article <865 at iiasa.UUCP> wnp at iiasa.UUCP (wolf paul) writes:
>>In article <1635 at sixhub.UUCP> davidsen at sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>>)| DOS-merge is generally better than VPIX, no flame please!!

>>Is it possible to run both on the same system, i.e. can they both 
>>co-exist under, say, ISC 386/ix 2.2?? And if so, where does one get
>>Merge for ISC?                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Sorry, the answer is nowhere, you can't get Locus' Merge for Interactive,
>it requires a great deal of code in the kernel to support it. Locus did
>the code in SCO's 3.2 kernel for Merge support. Now since VPiX is ISC's
>own product I doubt very much whether they would be interested in providing
>a competitor's product :-}.

The ISC kernel is based on AT&T source. This has -DMERGE as one of the options.
Is this relevant i.e. is the support already there ? Just curious.

Tim
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