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From: aai!aai.com!leo@uunet.uu.net
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Subject: Re: Experiences with RTU 5.0
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Date: 27 Aug 90 04:17:02 GMT
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stevev@chemstor.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) writes:
>In article <1068@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> jenkins@devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Steve Jenkins) writes:
>   Before scheduling our 5.0 upgrade, we would be very interested in
>   hearing any experiences with it, good, bad, or indifferent.
>Clearly, the problems we encountered in the upgrade were trivial.
>There aren't any particularly obvious advantages to the upgrade
>either, aside from lots of small bugfixes.  The new Ethernet
>software (which we haven't received yet) looks much nicer, since
>it includes support for the Internet name resolver and even the
>nameserver daemon (which most people won't need to run), so if
>have a nearby nameserver you won't have to keep host tables any
>more.

We found a BIG difference with X11 when we upgraded...  It worked!
Previously, we had all sorts of problems with "file table overflow" and not
being able to rlogin.  Under 5.0, X is actually usable!

Now, if they would just finish the X11R4 port...

Anybody know how to get the application keypad to produce escape codes
instead of numbers when running xterm?  Concurrent wasn't any help - they
said to wait for the xcterm that comes with Motif!


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