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From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: BBS under COHERENT ?
Message-ID: <9104091446.42@rmkhome.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 91 00:05:00 GMT
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Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
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In article <40992@cup.portal.com> RCH@cup.portal.com (Ric C Helton) writes:
>I, too, would like to know this.  I had considered getting Coherent,
>since it is advertised at only $99 (and less I hear, in some places).
>But I chose not to, since I read *here* that no one had been able to
>get anything to run under Coherent, and that it was not 100% compat.
>with other unix stuff.  Could I write my own? (I would have to learn
>C first....) Any comment here or email would be appreciated.


You should start reading the group comp.os.coherent.

I am posting this from my home machine, which is running Coherent, Cnews,
and Rn.  I have had very few problems porting stuff from the comp.sources.*
groups.  Coherent is UNIX V7 compatible with UNIX V5 extensions.  If you
are going to have any type of UNIX box for a personal machine, you should
be ready to learn UNIX administration, C, and shell programming.

The BBS listed in Mark Williams ads is a system where registered Coherent
users can download bug fixes, updates, and PD software using UUCP.  It is
not a BBS under the normal definition.


Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	frog!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP