Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!delluk!tim From: tim@delluk.uucp (Tim Wright) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: Copying DOS files to SCO UNIX Keywords: SCO UNIX DOS Message-ID: Date: 3 Sep 90 07:44:56 GMT References: <10558@uswat.UUCP> <1990Aug24.122452@hantsu.enet.dec.com> <1635@sixhub.UUCP> <865@iiasa.UUCP> <1990Sep01.192523.25958@turnkey.tcc.com> Sender: usenet@delluk.uucp (Usenet posting login) Organization: Dell Computer Corp., Bracknell, UK Lines: 23 In <1990Sep01.192523.25958@turnkey.tcc.com> jackv@turnkey.tcc.com (Jack F. Vogel) writes: >In article <865@iiasa.UUCP> wnp@iiasa.UUCP (wolf paul) writes: >>In article <1635@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: >>)| DOS-merge is generally better than VPIX, no flame please!! >>Is it possible to run both on the same system, i.e. can they both >>co-exist under, say, ISC 386/ix 2.2?? And if so, where does one get >>Merge for ISC? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >Sorry, the answer is nowhere, you can't get Locus' Merge for Interactive, >it requires a great deal of code in the kernel to support it. Locus did >the code in SCO's 3.2 kernel for Merge support. Now since VPiX is ISC's >own product I doubt very much whether they would be interested in providing >a competitor's product :-}. The ISC kernel is based on AT&T source. This has -DMERGE as one of the options. Is this relevant i.e. is the support already there ? Just curious. Tim -- Tim Wright, Unix Support | Email: ...!ukc!delluk!tim Dell Computer Corp. (UK), Bracknell | (pending domain registration).