> Hope this is not to OT (it's about OS, not hardware...)
>
> I've come to posses an install floppy set for AT&T SysV UNIX v2.1 r4, but
> absolutely no documentation. After trying to install it on about 10
> different machines, I found that it settled in happily on (of all things) a
> Compaq ProlineaMT 4/33 (now u/g to P83 Overdrive and 32MB of RAM). That
> part is fine.
>
> Unfortunately, without documentation or even an HCL, I am pretty much in
> the dark. I managed to install all of the packages, but there is no
> networking support to be found.. ditto for C compilers, none to be found
> anywhere in the system. Now since we all know that C and networking are two
> fundamental tenets of UNIX, how might I proceed to get this box networked
> and on line? Sine none of the networking commands are installed (no ping,
> ftp, telnet etc.) I assume that the entire TCP/IP networking package was an
> option.. same for the C development package?
>
> Could someone provide docs, guidance, or just the wise advice to drop this
> project all together? :)
>
> Bill
TCP/IP, hah. TCP/IP didn't show up in SysV until the 3.x range and
didn't end up as standard until the SVR4 stuff.
Bill
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Received on Fri Oct 13 2000 - 19:12:59 BST