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From: ronc@cerebus.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Bell Tech 386 SysVr3 (really a put-down of Xenix)
Message-ID: <936@cerebus.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 88 00:56:11 GMT
References: <25145@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <465@sp7040.UUCP> <11643@steinmetz.ge.com> <1988Aug4.010448.26399@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <1585@spdcc.COM>
Reply-To: ronc@cerebus.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian)
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In article <1585@spdcc.COM> dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes:
>When someone flames so strongly about a product and company as you have,
>presenting some evidence and more invective, when that is contrary to a lot
>of people's reported experience, it's worth wondering what's going on.
>What's your support experience been with SCO?  What were the applications
>you were running?  Situations differ, but this is quite anomalous.

It could be that you don't see a lot of traffic on problems with Xenix
because a lot of people struggling with Xenix don't have access to
Usenet because they can't get the gol-durned uucp to work.  When you're
effectively cut off from the rest of humanity, your voice is small and
thin indeed.

As for support, we called SCO today with a trivial question about
their uucp, and they scheduled an answer for next Tuesday.  The
question was, how do you send a string in your chat script with
a space in it?  (Like "foo bar".)  If you write 

		foo\sbar

it sends

		foo\sbar


If you write

		foo\c "" bar

it sends

		foo\c

From the documentation it appears to be impossible to either force
a whitespace (tab or space, I don't care) in a chat script string
or even send a string without a trailing carrage return.  This is
a usable Unix?


				Ron
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      Ronald O. Christian (Fujitsu America Inc., San Jose, Calif.)
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      Calling all Fujitsu Usenet sites!  Contact cerebus!ronc or
      ronc@fai.com to establish uucp connection.