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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Will Xenix 286 software run on Microport 386?
Message-ID: <1991May31.205443.19441@kithrup.COM>
Date: 31 May 91 20:54:43 GMT
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In article <1991May31.134740.12735@cbnewsl.att.com> urban@cbnewsl.att.com (john.urban) writes:
>Under UNIX System V/386 Release 4.0, the odds lower.  Why is this?  Well
>many XENIX Application don't user opendir(), readdir() ... 

Mainly because there *was* no "filesystem-inedependent" way to read
directories prior to SCO XENIX 2.3.*.  ('286 and'386)  In fact, I'd *almost*
be willing to guarantee that a '286 xenix binary will *not* be able to work
on a non-v7ish filesystem.

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