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

[Ronald O. Christian]

In article <1585 at spdcc.COM> dyer at spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes:
>When someone flames so strongly about a product and company as you have,
>presenting some evidence and more invective, when that is contrary to a lot
>of people's reported experience, it's worth wondering what's going on.
>What's your support experience been with SCO?  What were the applications
>you were running?  Situations differ, but this is quite anomalous.

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.

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 

		foo\sbar

it sends

		foo\sbar


If you write

		foo\c "" bar

it sends

		foo\c

>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?


				Ron
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