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From: lnz@edsel (Leonard Zubkoff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: SR10 comments
Message-ID: <1540@edsel>
Date: 16 Oct 88 03:09:48 GMT
Organization: Lucid, Inc. Menlo Park, CA
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I recently had an interesting experience porting kermit to Domain/OS SR10 which
might be relevant to others.  I initially tried running the version of kermit I
had been using on 9.7, but it didn't function properly.  In order to fix it, I
started by looking for apollo and aegis conditionals in the source.  Since SR10
is supposed to be "real UNIX", I decided to try renaming apollo to xapollo and
aegis to xaegis -- that is, to remove all the conditionalization and see if it
would compile and run as a vanilla 4.2/4.3 BSD program.

My unconditionalized kermit seems to work just fine.  So a recommendation to
anyone porting net/public software to SR10: unless there's an abvious reason
why apollo-specific conditionalization is necessary, such as GPR support or
performance tuning, try building the program as vanilla BSD.

		Leonard N. Zubkoff
		Lucid, Incorporated