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- From: lisbon@vpnet.chi.il.us (Gerry Swetsky)
- Subject: Re: What's happening to ISC UNIX?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.172253.1219@vpnet.chi.il.us>
- Organization: Vpnet Public Access
- References: <9211171552.AA13460@space.alcbel.be> <1992Nov22.051548.13038@toolz.uucp>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 17:22:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov22.051548.13038@toolz.uucp> todd@toolz.uucp (Todd Merriman) writes:
- >This is not a total flame (see the last paragraph), but my recent
- >experience with ISC Unix has not been good...
-
- Nonetheless, you should have facts before you post.
-
- >3.0 is the latest version.
-
- 3.0.1 is the latest version.
-
- >>Is ISC up to SVr4 yet?
- >
- >No. And, there is no ksh.
-
- ISC had a SVR4 out. It was lost in the Sun coup and is not well
- supported presently.
-
- 3.0.1 includes a Korn shell. Full job control, however, is not
- included.
-
- >I was so disatisfied with my upgrade to ISC 3.0 that I asked
- >SunSoft for my money back, and I explained to them in writing
- >why I thought it was a shoddy product.
-
- 3.0 is running here quite well. We view the new sysadm program
- with mixed emotions.
-
- >But, my initial 30-day support period ran out before I
- >could get everything working!
-
- If you have problems during the initial thirty day support time
- which aren't resolved by the end of that period, you should
- *insist* the period be extended until the problems are resolved.
- Your fault, not Sun's.
-
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