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From: ron@rdk386.uucp (Ron Kuris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: any one use the exclan(sp)
Keywords: exclan sco xenix-net
Message-ID: <1990Mar20..21922@rdk386.uucp>
Date: 21 Mar 90 01:20:11 GMT
References: <248@pride386.UUCP>
Reply-To: ron@rdk386.UUCP (Ron Kuris)
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Organization: At Home, Sacramento, CA
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In article <248@pride386.UUCP> terry@pride386.UUCP (Terry Lyons) writes:
>Maybe I'm asking the wrong questions
>is ANYONE using the exclan(sp) setup that sco pushes as xenix net?
>would like to create a distributed file system (with 2+ computers)
>I am using sco xenix 2.3.0 
>I have gotten some suggestions as to changing to AT&T's, if I must I must but 
>would like to stay with pc clones (386 486 286 )
>if no one answers this time I guess I'll have to take the sales dept's word 
>for it ( last time I did that I became the owner of a TRS80 mdl III ).
>opinions PLEASE
>terry

Excellan(sp?) is horrible!  Trying to get mail to go through a machine like
is nearly impossible.  Problems I had were:

(1) Performance for a 'connect' is horrible.  They had an 8 processor
sequent on the other side and it still takes 10+ seconds to connect.

(2) rlogin equivalency doesn't work at all, regardless of your .rhosts files.

(3) There is no sendmail; instead, a kludgy smtp.config file which doesn't
have enough of the RFC's built into it.  Example:  Comments are treated
incorrectly in From: and To: lines.

(4) Due to the architecture, its nearly impossible to install something like
smail on top of this system.

(5) The front end 'mail' software they provide doesn't even understand
'foo@bar'.

All in all, I would much rather work with the Lachman TCP/IP stuff.  The
beta version I saw had fewer bugs (AND you get sendmail).

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