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Article: 13450 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: Ishikawa <ishikawa@yk.rim.or.jp>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: C-Kermit 8.0 for Solaris 9?
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 09:17:49 +0900
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Neil W Rickert wrote:
>
> andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel) writes:
>
> >Frank, this shouldn't be necessary for Solaris (or any commercial
> >UNIX). Just pick the oldest OS release you are going to support
> >(e.g. Solaris 2.5.1) and build under that. Binary compatability
> >guarantees mean this will work on all future releases providing
> >you are not using unsupported or EOL'ed features (at least in
> >Solaris - I can't speak for all commercial UNIXs).
>
> This is a very nice theory.
>
> Unfortunately, practice is different. For example "qpopper",
> compiled on solaris 7, will not run on solaris 8.
I concur.
As I found it hard way, Solaris changed the
way the hardware flow control is enabled
sometime between 2.3 and 2.5.1 and
so C-Kermit compiled for previous versions didn't
work as expected on later versions.
It is true that the compatibility support is getting better
now that the Solaris(sunos 5.x) is very mature, but who knows?