Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!egsner!eric
From: eric@egsner.UUCP (Eric Schnoebelen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: VP/ix vs Merge
Message-ID: <231@egsner.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 89 04:56:29 GMT
References: <15814@cup.portal.com> <212@libcmp.UUCP> <840@telly.UUCP> <742@omen.UUCP> <1827@statware.UUCP> <2473@netmbx.UUCP>
Reply-To: eric@egsner.UUCP (Eric Schnoebelen)
Organization: Central Iowa (Model) Railroad, Lewisville, Tx.
Lines: 29

In article <2473@netmbx.UUCP> blume@netmbx.UUCP (Heiko Blume) writes:
-well, at least vp/ix is allowed to modify the keyboard driver under xenix 386
-which can cause problems if it crashes or if you kill it. on the hann(g)over
-cebit fair i killed a vp/ic running procomm which caused the keyboard to f*ck
-up when i switched back to the virtual concole on which it was running. i had
-to cold boot the machine because i couldnt switch back to the other consoles, 
-the response to alt-f* was ;c or something like that...
-i asked a guy at sco's booth and he confirmed that vp/ic can modify the
-keyboard driver. not very sophisticated...
-i'd like to hear from someone using merge if he could check this one out.

	Well, I am using DOSMerge/386 ( an early beta release, no less )
on Microport Unix, and have had no problems with anything like that.
The only problem I have seen is that the Alt-F1 through Alt-F4 keys are
caught by the console driver, and shift you to that virtual console,
before passing them on to the DOS program.  One then needs to do a
Ctrl-SysReq to get back to the DOS session.

	I have killed off several DOS applications, and there were some
that wouldn't die the first couple of kills, but none of them left the
console in a messed up state.

	Over all, I like Merge very much.  I think it does a very good
job.  Now I just have to get a full release version of it.. :-)
-- 
Eric Schnoebelen
egsner!eric@texbell.uucp			...!texbell!egsner!eric
egs@u-word.dallas.tx.us				...!killer!u-word!egs
	"I know it sounds absurd, but please tell me who I am..."