Altos 2086 Questions
Dallas
rcj at ozdaltx.UUCP
Sun Jul 22 06:27:17 AEST 1990
I am currently doing some work on an Altos 2086 Xenix box and have
a few questions regarding it.
1) Is there a way to have virtual consoles in this version of Xenix?
I have a few terminals which need to switch out of one appliaction
and into mail fairly often, and saving their documents, exiting
the word processing package, and going into mail is a time
consuming endevour.
2) On the topic of word procesing packages, we are currently using
Rword, which in my esteamed opinion, needs help. I contacted
Altos and they mentioned a product called Uniplex. Does
anyone have any insight on this product? Are there any other
companies which have ported software to the 2086? I have
heard rumors that it is binary compatible with SCO, but don't
know if this is true.
3) Are there any good, simple, shell programs out there? We are
running a simple shell script for our menus at the moment,
and before I dive into re-writing these from scratch, I though
I would ask the net if there were any pre-written ones available.
4) Last question (I promise!!): Is there a program available to
download soft fonts to HP Laserjets via Xenix?
Thanks,
Robert
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