Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!nstar!larry From: larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,fido.unix Subject: Re: wanted: UNIX or clone Message-ID: <1991Apr30.172118.11022@nstar.rn.com> Date: 30 Apr 91 17:21:18 GMT References: <1991Apr28.155002.7791@unixland.uucp> <1991Apr28.212531.14727@agate.berkeley.edu> <1991Apr28.225644.10469@nstar.rn.com> Organization: NSTAR, Indiana's LARGEST BBS 219-289-0287/317-251-7391 Lines: 26 john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples) writes: >Norton is for ISC, AT&T, and SCO UNIX. It says so right on the box. >It would probably run fine on ESIX if you used the S51K file system >rather than FFS, or it might even work with FFS. I'm not brave enough >to find out. :) >>Look at Word Perfect, they have a version for SCO Unix and Interactive >>Unix - but not for ESIX. WP might run just fine under ESIX, but then >>it might not. >WordPerfect is listed in the ESIX software compatibility list. ESIX >has even released console driver patches specifically to support >WordPerfect. but WP under ESIX isn't supported by WP (so Word Perfect Unix technical support told me). They said I could try it - but if and when problems came up, I would be "one my own". WP support said something to the effect of "if we supported ESIX, we would say so in our documentation" -- Larry Snyder, NSTAR Public Access Unix 219-289-0287/317-251-7391 HST/PEP/V.32/v.32bis/v.42bis regional UUCP mapping coordinator {larry@nstar.rn.com, ..!uunet!nstar.rn.com!larry}