Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!umich!sharkey!clmqt!scott From: scott@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US (Scott Reynolds) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.misc Subject: Re: Can anyone comment on IBM Xenix v2.0? Keywords: IBM, xenix, 80386 Message-ID: <1991Apr30.050728.20269@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US> Date: 30 Apr 91 05:07:28 GMT References: <1991Apr26.001231.4238@bilver.uucp> Lines: 32 In article , peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <1991Apr26.001231.4238@bilver.uucp> bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes: >> In the ioctl area I was taking the state of the tty and anding >> with something like. >> newtty.c_(someflag) &= (somevalue). >> This worked on both the uPort and SCO but failed on IBM. >I'd have to see the code, but from your description it sounds like you had >a problem with the code, or a bug in the compiler. I'd have to see that code, also. The system I am using to post this article from is running IBM XENIX 2.0 and it doesn't have any problem with code of the sort you're talking about here; perhaps that was a bug in the 1.0 release, but not this one. The area that I _have_ had a lot of problems with is the curses library, but certainly not the standard library. The compiler also has a few minor problems, some of which were addressed in the maintenance releases; perhaps the (somevalue) expression wasn't very portable, but I can't be sure. IBM used the Microsoft 3.0 release, which is a System V.something derivative. I can always get stuff written for Vr2 to work, and most Vr3 stuff to work, provided I don't have any massive memory requirements to work around. -- scott@clmqt.marquette.MI.US | Scott Reynolds - + - Enterprise Information System | Revive us, oh Lord! |