[plug] OT SCO anyone familier with it ?

[Craig Ringer]

Michael Holland wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Scott Middleton wrote:
> 
> 
>>Thats actually quite funny. I was just talking (literally) to Leon
>>Brooks about doing that for a client of mine. Except we want to back up
>>the data from a SCO box to a Linux Box.
> 
> 
> Did Leon suggest installing the Gnu tools on SCO?  Gnu tar (unlike SCO)
> should preserve attributes. And you can have the same version on both
> sides.

You can get OpenSSH, GNU tar, bash, screen, vim, and all the other 
things that help keep an admin used to a modern system sane from skunkware.

ftp://ftp2.sco.com/pub/skunkware

They're packaged to be easy to install using `custom` (the OpenServer 
5.x ones, anyway) and install in /usr/local so they won't tread on 
anything else.

>>On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 07:39, Chris Cornish wrote:
>>
>>>Anyone know much about sco unix and how to use it. I have a friend the
> 
> What version?

Most people who ask about it seem to be running OpenServer 5.0.[3456] 
but it's definitely worth asking.

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Craig Ringer