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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: TCP/IP under SCO Xenix
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Date: 10 Feb 89 22:30:17 GMT
References: <291@Portia.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
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In article <291@Portia.Stanford.EDU> mikef@portia.UUCP (Michael Fallavollita) writes:
>Does anyone know of or have any basic TCP/IP utilities that will run
>under SCO Xenix? ...  >We'd like to connect them to each other and the
>world but don't like the $600 price tag that SCO will be putting on the
>TCP/IP system.  (One for each machine!!)  All we really need is telnet and 
>ftp.  Anything else would be a bonus.

Sounds like "cu" and "uucp" will do just what you want, and it only
costs $20 for an RS232 null modem cable.

I suppose it's arguable whether $600 is a lot or a little for TCP/IP.
It feels to me only slightly on the expensive side of reasonable,
considering what you get.  Most of the "value added" lies in the TCP/IP
implementation which has to exist regardless of what utilities (Telnet,
FTP, etc.) happen to reside on top of it.  Think of all the applications
as "free" (and they are, since they've been declared publically distributable
by UC Berkeley) and that you're paying for the integration of the protocols
(and support) into the kernel by SCO or its subcontractors.

I know that a company called "Streamlined Networks" was selling an
implementation of TCP/IP for both V.3 and SCO XENIX, and I used it last
year quite successfully under Bell Tech V.3.  I have no idea what its
status for XENIX is, now that SCO has announced their own TCP/IP product.
It might well be priced more aggressively--can't hurt to inquire.
I don't have a phone number handy, but their VP, Lance Norskog,
can be reached at ...!pacbell!belltech!lance.

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Steve Dyer
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