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- From: ignacij@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu (Ignacy Misztal)
- Subject: Re: IBM TCP/IP X
- References: <458@casemo.UUCP> <48063@ogicse.ogi.edu> <1is5ckINN5rb@crcnis1.unl.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:33:38 GMT
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- price@helios.unl.edu (Chad Price) writes:
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- >francis@ese.ogi.edu (Francis Moraes) writes:
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- >>keating@casemo.UUCP (John Keating ) writes:
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- >>>I'm planning on trying out IBM's TCP/IP product, and have some questions
- .....
-
- >>>(3) With the X-Window System (02G6980), will it allow me to display Sun's
- >>> OpenWindows programs?
-
- >>No problems.
-
- >I have had problems: mailtool crashes when attempting to use my display,
- >however all of the standard X stuff works, both from a Sun and an RS-6000. I
- >haven't tried the SGI yet.
-
- With me everything works except that cmdtool does not give up keyboard and
- opening options in the Sun's clock crashes the X (but not OS/2).
-
- >>>(4) How easy is the installation? One hour, two, four, three days?
-
- >>If you know what you're doing, one hour. I'm not a networking expert
- >>by any means but I got it up in about an hour. It doesn't require that
- >>you know all that much.
-
- >I think this is a little optimistic. I wound up getting help from our IBM rep,
- >as the straight install didn't work. I could now probably do it in an hour or
- >2, but only because I've now read ALL of the readme files, and have done it
- >before. The install _program_ does not complete the job, and you need to move
- >some files around by hand. (as in the TCP/IP drivers.)
-
- Worked right away for me; no major problems.
-
- IBM TCP/IP certainly was not a mature product when it was released, but it
- matures fast (see new CSDs every month), and some components are quite good.
- I have not had major problems with ftp or NFS recently, and the mail program
- with built-in spelling checker is very useful. Even the news reader is
- finally working, even though posting and replying is not very easy yet (this
- is in the work, the developer says). The most troublesome
- part of TCPIP was X-Windows that in the past locked, grabbed keybords, lost
- focus permanently, caused system freezes. The latest version (BB02052)
- seems to be stable, at last.
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