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From: aiajms@castle.ed.ac.uk (Bellerophon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Novice
Message-ID: <1474@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 21 Dec 89 21:07:17 GMT
Reply-To: aiajms@castle.ed.ac.uk (Bellerophon)
Organization: Edinburgh University Computing Service
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Hi there


I am at University in Edinburgh, Scotland and work at weekends and
during the holidays for a poultry factory where I write various programs
for use in quality control. We are getting XENIX very soon, ie perhaps
only 5-6 weeks away and I have been asked if I wish to install it. I
agreed (thought it might be fun at least) but I have never had
experience of XENIX. I have used UNIX for the last 3 years and would
therefore like some mail from those in NETLAND concerning any major
differences between UNIX (pref BSD) and XENIX. The machine is being
provided by IBM and I presume we can run DOS programs on it somehow.
Does anyone know exactly how this is done and how it accesses the
storage etc etc? Is it necessary for a seperate partition?



All letters gratefully received


-=Andy=-