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From: jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: DOMAIN/OS Questions
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Date: 18 Feb 88 17:20:00 GMT
Organization: Indiana University CSCI, Bloomington
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	I have some questions about DOMAIN/OS that I think
us UNIX-type people would be interested in knowing about:

	1.  Will 'stty' work the way it works under UNIX?

	2.  Will a.out.h exist (and make sense) to programs
            that depend on this sort of thing (Andrew from
	    CMU seems to need this, for instance)?

	3.  Will there be a /vmunix type of file so that
	    programs like xload will work?

	4.  Will there be an assembler?

	5.  Will you be able to disable dynamic libraries
	    so that things like 'undump' will work (TeX
	    distribution)?

	6.  Will source code be available to universities?

	7.  Will NFS allow files to be compiled and executed
	    from remote non-Apollo filesystems?

	8.  Will the /etc/passwd file be the real source of
	    account information and will it be in a readable
	    form?   Will the password field contain the
	    encrypted password?

	9.  Will prsvr be replaced in favor of lpd (for
	    Berkeley printing) instead of lpd having to
	    rely on prsvr?

	10. Will Pascal handle Berkeley pascal syntax?

	11. Will subnetworking work?

	12. Will NeWS/X be available?


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