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- From: njconway@ccvax.ucd.ie
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: Re: HPUX & SVID
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.094622.49921@ccvax.ucd.ie>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 09:46:22 GMT
- References: <BxLv9F.tB@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <4310312@hpindda.cup.hp.com>
- Organization: University College Dublin
- Lines: 28
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- In article <4310312@hpindda.cup.hp.com>, alech@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Alec Henderson) writes:
- > atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) writes:
- >
- >>>I'm curious. Can you provide a specific example of SVID version 3
- >>>functionality that you have tried to use which is not in HP-UX 8.0 (on
- >>>the series 300/400) or HP-UX 8.07 (on the series 700)?
- >>
- >>No problem: STREAMS is an obvious one
- >>(though STREAMS actually first appeared in SVID 2.2)
- >
- > HP has just released a separate STREAMS/UX product. It requires HP-UX 9.x.
- > It includes the basic STREAMS framework, a generic TLI interface, and
- > DLPI to HP's Ethernet/802.3 and Token Ring/802.5 network interface
- > cards.
- >
- > The STREAMS/UX product does NOT provide a STREAMS-based implementation
- > of pipes and fifos, TCP/IP, or terminal I/O.
- >
- > Regards,
- > Alec Henderson
-
- Hmm. So what you are saying is that Randall is right - the functionality does
- NOT appear in HP-UX 8.anything ? Not only that, even with 9.x, you have to
- buy it ? And (worse still ;-) it's incomplete...
-
- oh well
-
- Neil
-