[HECnet] JBEIL IS UP! (was Re: ULTRIX DECNET LMF?)

[Sampsa Laine]

Any idea how to fix the termcap / terminfo on this? It's all messed up.

Also any pointers to a place to download binaries for say editors, I'm getting a tad fed up with the circa 1984 version of 'vi' that's available.

sampsa


On 24 Apr 2015, at 05:35, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:

> Ultrix 4.0 - and the C compiler is definitely not current, I learnt C in 1994 and this is not the C I used..
> 
> sampsa
> 
> On 24 Apr 2015, at 03:10, Steve Davidson <steve at davidson.net> wrote:
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>> 
>> 
>> On 04/23/2015 10:05 PM, Sampsa Laine wrote:
>>> OK, so any tips on making an ULTRIX box a tad more modern? The terminal definitions are all weird and the C compiler is from the 70s...
>>> 
>>> Is there a nice set of BSD / GNU tools I can install on this? Or is this it?
>> Sampsa,
>> 
>> Which version are you running?  The compiler and tools should be at least 80's if not 90's.  I started working with ULTRIX in the 1985/86 timeframe and the environment was always "current".
>> 
>> -Steve
>> 
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