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From: rdp@pbseps.UUCP (Richard Perlman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: Sequent S81 running Dynix
Message-ID: <376@pbseps.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 89 05:33:05 GMT
References: <723@sactoh0.UUCP> <2400037@horizon> <368@pbseps.UUCP> <455@sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Reply-To: rdp@pbseps.PacBell.COM (Richard Perlman)
Organization: Pacific Bell Separations, San Francisco, CA
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In article <455@sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us> rich@sendai.UUCP (K. Richard Magill) writes:
>In article <368@pbseps.UUCP> rdp@pbseps.PacBell.COM (Richard Perlman) writes:
>>System V seems to be only half-heartedly implemented.  There are
>>problems with term i/o and some simple things (news) just don't
>>work at all.
>
>What news?  Oxtrap has been running news for almost 2 years now.
>-- 
>rich.


News, as in /usr/news (/usr/att/usr/news)?  According to Sequent
AT&Ts news program is "broken."  When I run it nothing happens,
no matter what, ecev with the -a option and lots of articles in
/usr/news.  Am I clear that I'm not talking about rn, readnews or
vnews here?  If it works, then that's great, now how do I get it
to work on our system.

While I'm on problems.. (Not Sequent's, this one) we have ksh on
our Symmetry (3.0.12) and it works fine as an interactive shell,
but as a scripting language it hangs at times for no apparent
reason.  We havn't really looked to hard to fix it, especcialy
since we just got ksh-'88.  Anyone else have this problem?


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