Help on a CTIX machine

[Michael Steele]

  I am new to this newsgroup so pardon any ignorance regarding the topic.
  As a part of the South Hall Computer Theme Program at NC State University
  in Raleigh, NC, we aquired a Convergent Tech Mini-frame plus a few months
  ago.  Below are several questions I have regarding the system, any help
  you can provide will be GREATLY appreciated (either by posting to the net
  or via email).  We have a mini-frame plus with v3.10net of SYS V.  We have
  130 meg of disk storage and about 4 meg of memory.  We are suppose to be
  configured to support 16 users, 8 over 9600 baud serial and 8 over
  ethernet.  

  1) Is there an FTP site for pc sources (ie an archive) or software that is
  configured for the 7300 3B1 miniframe, etc (I've heard they are all binary
  compatable).  What has been a pain for us is converting BSD programs to
  Sys V, I'm sure others are doing the same.  Has someone archived these
  conversions?

  2) Has anyone found a patch for 3.10 net version of Sys V that will allow
  TCP IP software to work on a Type B network?  To put it simply, our TCP-IP
  software doesn't work on the Ethernet network at NC State.  It's my
  understanding that the software isn't masking certain packets correctly to
  recognize a Type B? network.

  3) Has anyone seen a PD korn shell for the CTIX machines?  
  It is my understanding that later versions of Sys V support the Korn
  shell.  Is it true 
  that AT&T distributes UNIX free to universities...I assume this
  information is VERY old, or do they still do it.  If so, how would one go
  about upgrading their software and can we get kernal source?

  4) I've seen several postings about gcc running on AT&T machines.  We have
  the gcc source but haven't compiled it due to a 8 character variable name
  limit in our compiler.  Has someone gone through gcc and shortened the
  variable names or does this limitation disappear with later versions of
  Sys V?  We have sucessfully converted elm and emacs to the 8 char limit if
  anyone is interested in getting our modified source.  We are very
  interested in removing the 8 char limit so we can easily compile other
  large programs.  

  5) Does anyone know of a PD pascal for any machine...one that has the
  possibility of being converted to our CTIX machine? Or any other languages
  for that matter.

  6) Finally does anyone know of man files for the CTIX machine or for Sys
  V.  We didn't get any online docs with our system and are presently
  modifying BSD docs to comply with Sys V.

  					Thank you for bearing with me.
					Once again, any help will be 
					  appreciated!
					Michael Steele
						mikes at ncsuvx.ncsu.edu
						mikes at ncsuctix.ncsuvx.ncsu.edu
						netoprms at ncsuvm.bitnet