home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!att!fang!tarpit!bilver!bill
- From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
- Subject: Re: Questions about MAS90 from SOA
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 14:01:21 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.140121.1915@bilver.uucp>
- References: <Bt7stA.1o3@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Lines: 53
-
- In article <Bt7stA.1o3@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
- >The company I work for (who shall go unnamed) is very seriously
- >considering switching over to the MAS90 accounting system from State
- >of the Art Software running under SCO Unix 3.2v4.0. ....
-
- ....
-
- >2. The BBx interpreter, which is used to run MAS90, is installed owned
- >by root and with the SUID bit set.
-
- ....
-
- >4. MAS90 has a somewhat alarming tendency to drop the user to the
- >BBx BASIC prompt if it encounters a specific error condition (mostly
- >with a printer that is not hooked up).
-
- ....
-
- I've done some work at site with MAS90 and a couple with OSAS.
- Both use the BBx Business Basic.
-
- One of the problems I have noted is that BBX is not re-entrant
- and becomes a system hog if you have many users. I don't know
- if this has been changed but it was true over a year or so ago
- when I was trying to find out what was bogging down the system.
-
- That one turned out to be a 'power-secretary' who used the
- system console as here work station and typically had 4
- sessions going at one time :-(.
-
- >Although it is possible to fix most of these problems (I haven't yet
- >found a fix for (4) above, but have gotten the rest of them mostly
- >solved), I'm still left with a very bad feeling about MAS90. It
- >honestly looks like the BBx and SOA folks just took their DOS product
- >and recompiled it under Unix, without any thoughts to the differences
- >in paradigm between DOS and Unix.
-
- I also have seen the both MAS90 and OSAS drop the user into the
- basic prompt. To me that is not the way that any program
- should behave. But that seems to be typical of many DOS type
- programs. I was suitably unimpressed.
-
- >Unfortunately, I'm having some trouble convincing the powers-that-be
- >that MAS90 is a bad idea. So, I'm turning to the net: Does anyone
- >have experiences, either positive or negative, with MAS90 in an SCO
- >Unix environment? ....
-
- Sorry - nothing positive.
- --
- Bill Vermillion - bill@bilver.oau.org bill.vermillion@oau.org
- - bill@bilver.uucp
- - ..!{peora|ge-dab|tous|tarpit}!bilver!bill
-
-