Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!ginosko!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: Microsoft Word & (SCO) Unix 3.2 Message-ID: <6073@ficc.uu.net> Date: 6 Sep 89 16:23:27 GMT References: <7227@megatest.UUCP> <14629@bfmny0.UUCP> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 31 In article <14629@bfmny0.UUCP>, tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes: > In article <6031@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: > >[The UNXUDI slick] > > also has the annoying problem of translating file names into and out of > >the DOS world (yes, I know it's not really DOS... it hooks into the UDI in > >the DOS tools at a higher level). > Note that everything having to do with DOS, *including* the stuff in the > EXE header, is completely out of the picture. OK, then the problem is moving stuff into and out of the UDI world. Which is based on RMX/ISIS. Since ISIS begat CP/M which begat MS-DOS it's pretty much a toss up which silly little acronyms you use. > This IS darn difficult, and under-documented in the manual. Generally > you have to UPPERCASE the keywords and lowercase the filenames, but some > things seem cantankerous. Not to mention giving you severe indigestion when you try to retain some sort of compatibility between your Xenix-286 based scripts and your System V based scripts. :-< > [intel brainwashed] into believing that OS/2 was somehow the answer to > something [?!], and [...] the systems people sneered at Unix. Yargh. -- Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' "The Distribution: field on the header has been modified so as not to 'U` violate Information Export laws." -- eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center.