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From: vch@rruxd.UUCP (Kerro Panille)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att
Subject: AT&T UNIX SVr2 and the 6300+
Message-ID: <144@rruxd.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Apr-86 23:24:47 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 15 23:24:47 1986
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By chance, I've fallen into a pre-release copy of UNIX for my beast. (Perfectly
honestly - it was geven to me by ATT) I have a few questions for those of you
out there who can answer them.

As a comment - I think it's great! Not too fast, but what can you expect from
an 80286.

Question #1:
	How do I use cu?  We have a MICOM network here, and after attaching
	myself to it, going through the hardware setup for the RS232 port,
	and driving myself crazy, I've noticed that cu only works with
	modems! But that's not the problem; it says that there are no ports
	available. After reading the directions, I tried the -d switch. Very
	funny guys. Anything following the -d (which is *supposed* to be a
	device name such as /dev/tty, according to the manual) are taken as 
	more flags. Any ideas on what's going on? How can I get it to use the
	MICOM? [it just occured to me that I should have tried quoting the
	/dev/tty arg... I'll have to try that...]

Question #2:
	Was the 6300+ UNIX really supposed to be used with a 20MB disk?
	After installing the Development Package, Extended Terminfo Package,
	and OS-MERGE, I found that I had only 32% of my disk left. That's 
	about 5MB. That's also not too much. So far, I've only seen the
	6300+ with 20MB disks. This too is a cruel joke - I wonder when 
	they will start selling them with 40+MB disks...

Question #3:
	I assume that uucp, ins, and the others won't work with the MICOM
	either. Correct?

Question #4:
	Since the system allows for /dev/tty and /dev/tty1, I assume that I can
	(or will be able to) add another serial card. Can I use an IBM 
	compatible card?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can enlighten me!

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