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From: bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: wanted: UNIX or clone
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.212432.17198@unixland.uucp>
Organization: Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix
References: <1991Apr28.125102.1676@nstar.rn.com> <1991Apr28.155002.7791@unixland.uucp> <1991Apr28.212531.14727@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 91 21:24:32 GMT

In article <1991Apr28.212531.14727@agate.berkeley.edu> ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga) writes:
>
>By the way, are there any mainstream commercial applications
>(WordPerferct, 123, Dbase, etc) that won't run under  some 386 Unix
>variants?  

Larry was saying that most of them probably will run under systems
on which they are not "officially" supported, but you may run into
specific incompatibilities later.  I did run into such a situation with
ISC VP/ix on Esix -- Wordperfect 5.1 requires some special fenagaling
to get it to work properly -- and then you do awayl with print spooling.


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