Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Path: utzoo!telly!robohack!druid!darcy
From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Subject: Re: news,rn,etc compile on esix ?
Message-ID: <1990Aug14.175903.5712@druid.uucp>
Keywords: news rn esix 386
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
References: <2075@sud509.ed.ray.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 90 17:59:03 GMT

In article <2075@sud509.ed.ray.com> heiser@sud509.ed.ray.com (Bill Heiser - Unix Sys Admin) writes:
>
>Will "news", rn, etc. compile and run properly under Esix
>on a 386/25?
You don't say which news but here is a list of stuff that I have compiled and
running on my Esix 3.2D running on a 386/25:
  C News
  Elm
  Rn
  GNU C
  GNU Make
  Smail 2.5

Plus a ton of other PD stuff.  No problem.

>
>Also, how does vp/ix work out for running dos apps on
>Esix?
I installed Interactive's VP/ix and it works fine with a few exceptions:
  - When you want to switch virtual screens you have to press Alt-SysRq
    followed by Fx where x is the desired screen - 1.  Currently only
    the left Alt key works but I believe Esix is working on fixing this.

  - The length of the beep is about 4 or 5 seconds.  This can really get
    your nerves.  So far no one has suggested a way to fix this.

Other than that I do all my DOS development in Unix and simply call the
DOS compilers and linkers to create the programs.  I have even modified
GNU Make so that it knows how to create DOS .obj and .exe files.  I find
that it works quite well.

>
>I want to make sure I don't get myself into another 
>"Coherent" type thing here... :-)
>
Don't worry.  Esix is a "real" Unix.

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