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From: perry@bluemtn.uucp (Perry Minyard (3MTA3))
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Getty timeout problem
Summary: SCO promises, but doesnt deliver.
Message-ID: <1990Feb21.133737.1741@bluemtn.uucp>
Date: 21 Feb 90 13:37:37 GMT
References: <221@comsys.UUCP> <1990Feb20.154917.23880@bluemtn.uucp> <7724@tank.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: perry@bluemtn.UUCP (Perry Minyard (3MTA3))
Organization: blue mountain software
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In article <7724@tank.uchicago.edu> goer@sophist.UUCP (Richard Goerwitz) writes:
>perry@bluemtn.UUCP (uunet!bluemtn!perry)(Perry Minyard) writes:
>>
>>You might want to play around with telinit, but I dont think that will help
>>you either.
>
>Telinit under Xenix has a rather limited usefulness with its getty com-
>mand.  Its format is rigid, and is pretty much a translation of what you

[...] 

>                SCO promises a more full integration of telinit and
>enable/disable approaches in a future release of Xenix, so this is not
>meant to be a criticism of them.  For now, hack we must.
>

Yea.. right in the manual, and inittab file, it says "It is intended that
a full integration of these two approaches will be provided in future 
versions of Xenix."

I've heard they aren't going to have any further releases of Xenix.  
I have version 2.3.3.  Hey SCO... are you out there listening?  Am I
wrong or am I right?

-Perry Minyard