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- From: pf@artcom0.north.de (Peter Funk)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Subject: Quality of vendor supplied software (was Re: How to replace disk driver in SCO Unix ?)
- Message-ID: <4361@artcom0.north.de>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 16:28:28 GMT
- References: <JOCHEN.92Aug19074730@mrz.sub.org> <1992Aug22.152138.2272@compu.com> <1853@adagio.UUCP>
- Followup-To: comp.unix.sysv386
- Organization: ArtCom GmbH, Atelier f. Computergrafik, Bremen(FRG)
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- In <1853@adagio.UUCP> grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey) writes:
- > >Switching distributors among the above
- > >vendors probably won't help.
-
- > *sigh* you could be right. But he could install gcc instead.
-
- Indeed. We switched over to gcc1.40/gdb3.5/gas1.38 a couple of
- months ago and were excited about the real production quality of
- this development kit compared to the original rubbish.
-
- Many thanks to Steve Bleazard (sp?) for his wonderful XENIX
- patches for gcc. Meanwhile we are replacing one utility after
- the other with their GNU-counterparts, which were more
- reliable, comfortable and better documented.
-
- BTW: Jochen Fahrner was right with his comments about
- german distributors. They know almost nothing about their
- products. Our company has switched over all larger
- SCO distributors here in germany during the last 4 years.
- There is no difference ... Very often they sell outdated releases
- (I think, I've just seen Advertisements for ODT 1.0 in
- the july number of some magazine)... It is a mournful story ! ...
-
- Nevertheless: I don't know about other *NIX-vendors.
-
- Regards, Peter
- Note: The usual "english_is_not_my_native_language"-disclaimer applies
- to this "kraut"-babble.
- -=-=-
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