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From: rac@sherpa.UUCP (Roger Cornelius)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: seek error from `w' command
Message-ID: <531@sherpa.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 91 17:16:29 GMT
References: <516@sungate.UUCP>
Organization: Personal System Computing,  St. Petersburg, FL
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From article <516@sungate.UUCP>, by glen@sungate.UUCP (Glen):
> In article <1991Mar25.074823.13361@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca>, curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt J. Sampson) writes:
>> I'm running SCO Xenix 2.3.2 on a 286.  The `w' command gives me a seek
>> error, though `uptime' works ok.
> 
> SCO is aware of the seek error, and they are working on a fix to it; however,
> I believe this is a low priority for them and probably will not be addressed
> for some time... especially since 2.3.2 is the final release of Xenix-286.

It must be really low priority since I reported this same problem a
year and a half ago when I first upgraded to 2.3.2 on the 286.  I've
since upgraded to SCO UNIX.  uptime/w work correctly there :-).

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Roger A. Cornelius          rac@sherpa.UUCP         uunet!sherpa!rac