NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #18/NN_1992_18.iso/spool/comp/os/coherent/3721

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Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: anybody care to share thier opinions on the new 32bit release?
Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!sdd.hp.com!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
From: [e-mail] (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 19:24:05 GMT
Reply-To: [e-mail] (Rick Kelly)
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Jim Lentz (Wheeling Tech Support)) writes:
>In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Rick Kelly) writes:
>
>>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (E. v. Pappenheim) writes:
>>>X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
>>>
>>>[e-mail] (Andrew P. Houghton) writes:
>>>: [e-mail] (earthbound misfit, I) writes:
>>>: : [e-mail] (Dennis Box ) writes:
>>>: :
>>>: : > Subject: Re: anybody care to share thier opinions on the new 32bit release?
>>>: : >
>>>: : > Well?
>>>: :
>>>: : Just as soon as I receive my update, I promise to post lots of first, second
>>>: : and third impressions.
>>>: :
>>>:
>>>: I have been running 4.0 for about a week.  I think they rushed it too
>>>: soon.  I crashed it several times.  Once I booted my machine cold it
>>>: got thru "loading Coherent" and the file system check then /bin/sh
>>>: died and trashed my file system.  Reinstall from scratch.  The uucp
>>>: directions in the book for uuinstall don't work.  I followed them to a
>>>: tee, no go.  However the ones for manual install only have a few
>>>: gotchas in them.  So I was able to get uucp up and connect to mwcbbs.
>>>: Now I am trying send mail and its keeps getting rejected with an error
>>>: 68 or something.  I tried to look it up in the manual but of course
>>>: its not there.  I the course of testing mail I got some message "bad
>>>: arenea" and could not execute any other program.  Tried to look that
>>>: up and nothing doing.  I happened to be logged in as root at the time,
>>>: so rather that trash the file system I tried to execute shutdown.
>>>: Same message.  For shits and grins I tried exec shutdown and that
>>>: worked.  So I concluded it could not fork.  Tried to use Lex.  I typed
>>>: a program right out of the book in the tutorial, I think page 220, and
>>>: it did not produce the same results... Life goes on and I suspect that
>>>: I will encounter more... Andy.
>>>: --
>>>: Andrew P. Houghton, MC 465                     Internet:  [e-mail]
>>>: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.      UUCP:      colnet!sppy00!aph
>>>: 6565 Franz Road                                Voice:     [phone]
>>>: Dublin, Ohio  43017-0702                       Fax:       [phone]
>>>
>>>I'm running 4.0 since the early 'developers edition' days, and it NEVER
>>>crashed or trashed a file system. It is my news and mail host, running
>>>Cnews, tin and elm, and does this job (including uucp) without a glitch.

>>Same here.

> Same here, except I can't use virtual consoles. In reading the manual I believe my
>keyboard is not 100% compatible. Anyone have this problem besides me?


I had this problem.  I replaced my keyboard with a Northgate Omnikey/101.
Now I can use virtual consoles.  This keyboard is great.  It has switches
to allow changing the ctrl, alt, and caps lock keys.  They include new
keycaps.

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Rick Kelly    [e-mail]    unixland!rmkhome!rmk    [e-mail]