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From: bill@bilver.UUCP (bill vermillion)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Troubles with Xenix
Message-ID: <392@bilver.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 89 19:33:37 GMT
References: <11310@gryphon.COM>
Reply-To: bill@bilver.UUCP (bill vermillion)
Organization: W. J. Vermillion, Winter Park, FL
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In article <11310@gryphon.COM> tiger@pnet02.cts.com (Andre Tiger) writes:
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>I have a cople of question for you Xenix users out there.
>
>1.  When print on my 286 system the printer runs very slow, prints a line
>every 2 or 3 sec.  As you can see it would take a very long time to get a
>program listing done.   Any thoughts as to what may be going wrong.
 
Go to the release notes section of your manual.  This is discussed in detail
there.  It include showing how to load adb from your distribution floppies,
and the exact sequence used to patch the kernel.  There are two variants.  I
had the problem, and the patches cure it.  It is a printer problem.  Not all
printers exhibit this problem.

>2.  Is there a command under SCO Xenix that will let you save files from your
>Xenix harddisk to a dos 1.2 floppy???

Look in your manual under the dos*** section.  doscp is documented.  You might
have to go to /etc/default/dos to change the parameters there.  I have a
system set up to handle both 5.25 and 3.5's under dos.  Not hard at all.

>I need to be able to tranfer files to my dos system so I can take avantage to
>the better editors that I have under that envirmont.

Guess that's a matter of taste.  I like the unix editors better.  And they are
SO much faster on big files.  But the above should get you going

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