[plug] Unix

[Mike Holland]

Dang! How can I write a reply when i can only see the first line of each
paragraph? (time to ditch pine?)
   Please keep your e-mail to < 80 columns. Also, please avoid
HTML as it adds nothing and not all mailers accept it. I know it would be
easier if everybody used the same mailer (Outlook?) but you're with Linux
weirdos now.

[ I use pine. Do other mailers break up lines before quoting them in
replies? ]

  What version is SCO now? I used it years ago and it was still System
VR3.2, which was generally inferior to Linux. You could get 'pg' for
Linux, but thats ancient and 'less' is so much better.
  If you must use SCO at work, I'd suggest installing the GNU utilities
and your favorite window manager, shell, etc. until it looks like Linux.
Most linux programs (with source) can be run on SCO. (And vice versa I
hear.)

For a terminal emulator,
SCO is unix. Use xterm or any equiv. No need for wyse emulation, as SCO
should use terminfo or termcap the came as Linux. (see man pages.)
For dialup, there is minicom, seyon, kermit, or the venerable 'cu'.

Hope that helps.

On Wed, 10 May 2000, Vic Bitter wrote:

> Just curious about some of the major differences between SCO Unix in particular and Linix. The reason being is that now and then I have to access a SCO Unix box with some of our paging software. Going through a list of commands that I have been given I noticed that where I would type ps | more using Linux I type st | pg for SCO. Is the main differences between these two systems just the tools that they use ?
> 
> I would also like to know which program I should use through Linux to dial into the SCO server. I use a program called dejawin which also uses a program called setICE. Dejawin is a wyse60 emulation for windows and setICE seems to be a comunications package to comunicate with a UNIX host. Can I use any terminal program on Linux with a wyse60 emulation to connect? Also when I connect I am faced with a login prompt and can then use the server almost as though I was sitting at the terminal itself.

Mike Holland  <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>
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