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- Subject: UnixWare Frequently Asked Questions (Overview)
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- Archive-name: unix-faq/unixware/overview
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- Last-modified: Jan 29 1999
- Version: 2.15
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- UnixWare Frequently Asked Questions (Overview)
-
- Introduction
-
- This is the Overview section of the UnixWare Frequently Asked Questions file
- maintained on the Internet for the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.unixware.misc.
- Its maintainer is Andrew Josey (andrew(at)tamarix.demon.co.uk). Suggestions
- and contributions are always welcome.
-
- This document and the other FAQ files may be found on the world wide web at
- http://www.freebird.org/faq/
-
- This document may also be obtained by anonymous ftp from the freebird
- archive at
-
- * ftp.freebird.org:/unixware/freebird/hints/FAQ/overview
- * ftp1.freebird.org:/pub/mirror/freebird/hints/FAQ/overview
- * ftp2.freebird.org:/pub/unixware/freebird/hints/FAQ/overview
-
- Small print: This file is Copyright 1997-1998 freebird.org. Permission is
- granted for copying for non-commercial use. Many proper names of companies
- and software mentioned in these files are trademarks of their respective
- owners. All views are those of the individual contributors and not of their
- employers.
-
- This article is posted monthly around the middle of the month.
-
- The FAQ is divided into the following categories:
-
- * (O) Overview, this document describing other documents which compose the
- total UnixWare FAQ and pointers to other UnixWare resources.
- * (D) Developer, for items of interest to software developers/programmers
- * (A) Autoconfiguration, describing use of the Device Configuration Utility(DCU)
- * (M) Mailsurr, describing the Email system
- * (T) Troubleshooting, describing UnixWare 2.x installation and miscellaneous topics
- * (G) General, for items of nonspecific interest
- * (N) How to setup Networking.
- * (U) UnixWare 7 specific qustions.
-
- A Meta FAQ is now available - see http://www.freebird.org/faq/meta.html.
-
- (The following are now looking a bit dated and could do with
- an update)
-
- * (U) User, for items of interest to general users
- * (S) SysAdmin, for items of interest to UnixWare system administrators
-
- Each of these category is now a separate file; together, along with this
- overview, they are the UnixWare FAQ. They are posted to the Internet
- newsgroups comp.unix.unixware.misc and comp.unix.unixware.announce, and
- related groups, including news.answers and comp.answers, roughly once a
- month. Readers of these files with access to the Internet should be able
- to find them archived in the news.answers archive at rtfm.mit.edu and
- available by anonymous ftp Its location is:
-
- ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/unix-faq/unixware/
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- UnixWare RESOURCE POINTERS
-
- This section gives pointers to other UnixWare and UNIX system resources.
- Suggestions and contributions to be added to this section
- are always welcome.
-
- O1) Where can I get Freeware and shareware for UnixWare?
- O2) Where can I get Information on setting up Internet Services on UnixWare?
- O3) What is PDF and where can I get a PDF viewer for UnixWare?
- O4) Where is the comp.unix.unixware.misc news archive?
- O5) Where can I find the official UNIX system manual pages?
- O6) Where can I find SCO Documentation?
- O7) Where can I find links to other UNIX system resources?
-
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-
- Subject: O1) Where can I get Freeware and shareware for UnixWare?
-
- The Freebird archive (from ftp.freebird.org) is a set of unsupported freeware
- software ported to UnixWare. Sources and binaries are included, often the
- binaries are in pkgadd format for ease of installation.
-
- See http://www.freebird.org for more information about the
- Freebird archive - also note that there are plans afoot to
- make the archive available on CD-ROM.
-
- Also see the SCO Skunkware project at http://www.sco.com/skunkware.
-
- Subject: O2) Where can I get Information on setting up Internet Services
- on UnixWare?
-
- A list of pointers to freely available information can be found at
- http://www.freebird.org/uwinetkit.html
-
- This includes information on the following:
-
- - UnixWare 2 As an Internet Access Server (HTML Presentation)
- - World Wide Web (WWW) - http servers, web browsers
- - File Transfer Protocol (ftp)
- - Gopher
- - Wide Area Information Service (wais)
- - Domain Name Service (DNS)
- - Bootp and DHCP server (including auto allocation of IP addresses)
- - Electronic Mail
- - Usenet news (netnews), server and client software
- - Post Office Protocol (POP, APOP)
- - Point to Point Protocol (PPP)
- - Archie, Xarchie
- - Service Wrappers
- - Ftp Mirror tool.
- - Firewall Tools , (fwtk, ssh)
- - Sendmail for UnixWare
-
- Subject: O3) What is PDF and where can I get a PDF viewer for UnixWare?
-
- PDF is Adobe's portable document format. SCO and many other
- companies are starting to distribute documents in this format.
- A PDF viewer for UnixWare, called xpdf is available on
- ftp://ftp.xopen.org/pub/PDF/xpdf.
-
- Subject: O4) Where is the comp.unix.unixware.misc news archive?
-
- A free-text searchable news archive can be found at
- http://www.freebird.org/cgi-bin/freebird/newssearch.pl.
-
- Subject: O5) Where can I find the official UNIX system manual pages?
-
- The official UNIX system manual pages from The Open Group's
- Single UNIX(R) Specification are online at http://www.UNIX-systems.org/go/unix.
-
- Subject: O6) Where can I find SCO Documentation?
-
- Online SCO documentation for a variety of products including
- UnixWare 7 can be found at http://www.sco.com/documentation/.
-
- You can go direct to the UnixWare 7 documentation at http://doc.sco.com.
-
- Subject: O7) Where can I find links to other UNIX system resources?
-
- A set of links to other UNIX system resources is available at
- http://www.UNIX-systems.org/link_list.html
-
- Trademark Acknowledgments
-
- UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group
- UnixWare is a registered trademark of SCO
-
- --
- Andrew Josey, #include <disclaimer.h>
- For UnixWare freeware binaries, sources , and FAQs - http://www.freebird.org
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