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From: tih@barsoom.nhh.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Do YOU have the SCO TCP/IP development toolkit?
Keywords: SCO,TCP/IP
Message-ID: <859@barsoom.nhh.no>
Date: 7 May 90 16:14:53 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Norwegian School of Economics
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I have a problem...  A few months ago, I got an OK from my boss to
purchase a 386 system with SCO Unix V/386 3.2.0 and TCP/IP support,
because it would enable us to offer many new TCP/IP services to our
large network of PC and Macintosh machines.  Well, I've got the
system, and I've got TCP/IP runtime (I'm posting this from the system
in question), and I've got the regular development system -- but the
development toolkit for TCP/IP seems not to be forthcoming.  According
to our local distributor, it's still in beta test, and they've been
unable to get hold of a beta distribution to tide me over until my
order can be filled.

Meanwhile, I'm getting ever more anxious to be able to prove to the
rest of this organization that my new toy is justified.  Now, I could
try for permission to drop SCO and go with some other supplier -- but
I don't particularly like throwing good money after bad.  I realize
that I made a mistake in purchasing SCO Unix; I should have gone for
AT&T SVR4, which it turns out I could have had cheaper (including full
source code), as we're an educational institution.  (Big hand to AT&T
for this!)  However, I'd like to get some results with what I've got.

So:  I'd like to get in touch with someone out there who has the
TCP/IP toolkit in beta test, and who would be willing to either

a)	let me send them source code to compile into object modules
	which they would send back to me,

b)	let me use a telnet login on their machine for the same
	purpose, or

c)	(dare I suggest it?) let me pirate a copy of the toolkit so
	I'll have something to work with until my own order is filled.

Go ahead, flame me for that last one if you like -- I don't feel bad
about it in the least, as I've been trying for months to be allowed to
purchase the product legally.  There's a limit to my patience.

If anyone from SCO should wish to respond to this, flames or
otherwise, please don't reply to this address:  /usr/lib/sendmail
coredumps when I receive mail from sco.com, and I haven't been able to
figure out a fix yet, so address me as edb_tom@kredit.nhh.no instead.
Mail from any other node seems to be OK, it's never happened with any
other mail messages, but it's happened with *every* piece of mail from
sco.com.  Hmm, maybe `strings /usr/lib/sendmail | grep "sco.com"`? :-)

-tih
-- 
Tom Ivar Helbekkmo, NHH, Bergen, Norway.  Telephone: +47-5-959205
tih@barsoom.nhh.no, thelbekk@norunit.bitnet, edb_tom@pluss.nhh.no