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From: sandy@turnkey.TCC.COM (Sanford 'Sandy' Zelkovitz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Excelan Support!
Keywords: Excelan SCO_Xenix_366
Message-ID: <1885@turnkey.TCC.COM>
Date: 16 Sep 88 02:46:56 GMT
Organization: Turnkey Computer Consultants, Costa Mesa, Ca.
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Well, Excelan is back to their old tricks again! It was bad enough waiting
until they finally released their Xenix 386 version but now, their 386
version DOES NOT WORK properly under the new release, 2.3.0. After MANY
telephone calls to Excelan, I was "promised" a "fix" for their present
release; however, today at 4PM, they called me back and told me that they
WILL NOT send the fix! The reason that was given was that "they were afraid
that it may have bugs in it".
 
If you are using the new release of Xenix and install the Excelan distribution,
the following problems WILL occur:
 
1) smtp will not install
2) rsh will not connect and will finally cause a double panic!
3) you will run out of multi-screen memory after the 8th one!

The following function do seem to work:
1) ftp
2) telnet
3) rlogin

I was told that the "new" release will be available sometime in October. If
they follow their previous sequence of promises ( the initial release of
the Xenix 386 version ), I suspect that October means February or so!
 
BTW, here is one for the books: I was told by Excelan that SCO has a fix
for the software. My response was why SCO?  No answer was given that made
sense.
 
Sanford <sandy> Zelkovitz