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From: lenny@icus.ICUS.COM (Lenny Tropiano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.questions,u3b.misc,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: AT&T SVR4 Porting Guide, what it is, how to order
Message-ID: <1260@icus.ICUS.COM>
Date: 2 Sep 90 00:43:48 GMT
References: <33398@cup.portal.com> <1990Aug31.182121.14904@mccc.uucp>
Reply-To: lenny@icus.ICUS.COM (Lenny Tropiano)
Organization: ICUS Software Systems, Islip, New York
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In article <1990Aug31.182121.14904@mccc.uucp> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) 
writes:
|>In article <33398@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
|>=I continue to receive numerous inquiries concerning SVR4 and its impact on
|>=existing software and applications.  In case this hasn't been mentioned 
|>=before, I'd like to point interested parties to an EXCELLENT document from 
|>=AT&T:
|>=
|>=	APPLICATION OPERATING ENVIRONMENT
|>=	AT&T UNIX System V Release 4.0
|>=	Migration Guide for System V Developers
|>=
|>
|>You left out the best part, Thad.  Unless it was an error that has been
|>corrected, the manual + 2 disk set costs $5.00 and change!!
|>
|>Pete
|>
|>-- 
|>Prof. Peter J. Holsberg      Mercer County Community College
[...]

Guess it worked out for you Pete! ;-)  When I received this manual
free of charge in the mail, since I currently am employed by an AT&T VAR,
I decided to see what this freebee (software and docs) was actually worth.
I called the documentation hotline, asked for the price on the SELECT CODE
for the guide, and they told me $5.03!  :-)  Not bad, but I guess they [AT&T]
want everyone to migrate to SVR4 (I guess after seeing the binary license
costs, I don't blame them...)

Unfortunately the SVRX.X testing program [to4.0chk] (for 386 and 3B2 computers)
doesn't work too well.  I decided to see how portable some of my bigger 
programs are ... and the program immediately bombed out with:

$ to4.0chk svr3.2 c program.c
[...]
ERROR: Internal Stack Overflow error at line 949: lex.yy.c

Oh well, this program isn't *that* big...

-Lenny
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