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- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!canrem!telly!evan
- From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
- Subject: Re: SAS 2.0
- Organization: Somewhere just far enough out of Toronto
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 03:00:18 GMT
- Message-ID: <2A95ADC3.4DB3@telly.on.ca>
- References: <Bt0F4G.47G@chinet.chi.il.us> <1992Aug16.084351.10145@Unibase.SK.CA> <1992Aug19.195140.3310@sinkhole.unf.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug19.195140.3310@sinkhole.unf.edu>
- shite@sinkhole.unf.edu (Stephen Hite) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Aug16.084351.10145@Unibase.SK.CA>
- roe@Unibase.SK.CA (Roe Peterson) writes:
-
- >>Regarding merge: We are currently testing the VPIX code by hacking the
- >>ESIX 5.3 release into 5.4.0.3.A. There is (to my knowledge) currently
- >>no support whatever for native dos mode in ESIX 5.4, and I certainly don't
- >>have access to dos/merge; therefore, any extensions that merge requires
- >>(if any) will have to be left as an exercise for someone else.
- >
- > My experience with Esix 5.4 and VPIX 1.02 from Interactive is that
- >it works except you can't mount DOS partitions, access the serial port
- >or access 1.44 meg floppies (I use mdir for this instead).
-
- After literally months of back-and-forths on it, Locus has finally
- shipped a version of Merge that will run properly on ESIX 4.0.4. I
- forgot the exact release number but ESIX tech support has it.
-
- ESIX tells me the last release of Merge is the first one that did not
- break on the torture test they had designed for it. However, it does not
- appear that ESIX will be OEMing Merge, as they don't feel there's enough
- call for DOS-under-UNIX anymore to justify the extra cost of bundling it.
- The Merge available from any Locus dealer will now run on ESIX.
-
- If you have ESIX and you feel it's important for them to OEM Merge,
- now's the time to let them know it.
-
- I have always personally hated what DOS-under-UNIX products do to the
- system, the hoops they make it jump and the performnce hit they extract.
- It seems like in a situation where running DOS software in a UNIX
- environment is vital, an approach using Desqview/X (designating a
- separate machine as a "DOS server", so to speak) would be far
- preferable.
-
- --
- Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd., located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
- evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!utzoo!telly!evan / (416) 452-0504
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