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From: bill@wgc386.mv.com (William Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: SCO support of Xenix/386
Message-ID: <1990Dec2.142336.8970@wgc386.mv.com>
Date: 2 Dec 90 14:23:36 GMT
References: <3960@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <360@anomaly.sbs.com> <1990Dec1.030351.6744@nshore.uucp>
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In <1990Dec1.030351.6744@nshore.uucp> steve@nshore.uucp (Stephen J. Walick) writes:

>As quoted from <360@anomaly.sbs.com> by mpd@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan):
>+---------------
>| srodawa@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Ron Srodawa) writes:
>| 
>| >2. Released new development system release 2.3.1.
>| 
>| Err, my understanding is that the new devsys release is v2.3.2, and it
>| costs over $200 to upgrade to it.
>| 
>| This irks me to no end as I just shelled out $500+ for the devsys this
>| past summer - now I'd had to pay yet-another-50% to get the "upgrade".
>| 
>| Riiiight. I'm going to "upgrade" to a new Unix. And, it ain't gonna
>| be SCO.
>+---------------

>Tell the world what the source of your information is, and we'll all
>know who not to ask or believe.

>I downloaded < lng244 > to correct some incremental loader (ldr) problems
>I was having on the purchased Development System (from SCO) 2.3.0, but
>the letter with < lng244 > warned about *NOT* applying that update on
>the Development System that was *NOT* 2.3.1.  A simple call to the SCO
>"media" department got for me not only the Development System 2.3.1, but
>also their CGI update from 1.0.1 to 1.1.0d, all within one week, NO
>CHARGE -- not even the phone call, which was answered *immediately*!

I've had similar experience.  I called SCO on a Friday to register my
software and get ALL the free updates available (O/S, Devsys, lng244,
VP/ix, etc.) all of it arrived on the following Monday.

>Why don't you, and all other non-believers in SCO, give *them* a call
>(800) 347-4381, and you might find them to actually be very helpful.
>( BTW, SCO's current most recent release of the Development System for
>SCO-Xenix is 2.3.1d! )

Worked for me.

>-- 

>Stephen J. Walick, Asst Sysop of the  < XBBS >  program  at  NCoast.ORG
>{uunet|backnone}!nshore!steve                         steve@nshore.uucp


Bill
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