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| From: | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask]> responded: >Same thing happens here on my 5.5 machine. > >I suspect the help text for :restore is overflowing the temporary file created >by :help because the number of lines listed in the paged output is a >suspicious 1023. The :help command needs to use a higher non-default >record limit for its temp file. > >You can also compare what's printed out by :help [...]54_13Feb199709:45: [log in to unmask] |
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| Date: | Sat, 8 Feb 1997 19:32:57 -0600 |
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> Anybody anxious to try out a 1.0 version of 64-bit MPE on their
> *production* machine? Geez, lots of people aren't yet willing to
install
> MPE/iX 5.5, an operating system that's in its 10th year of production
use.
> For the next two years, I'm more comfortable thinking of IA-64 -- and
it's
> corresponding "Next Generation Unix" -- as experimental.
>
> Ron Seybold, Editor In Chief
Ron,
If you ask me (which you didn't), running *any* *new* version of HPUX is
experimental. We're just surviving moving to HPUX 10 from 9 and we are
*still* waiting on HP to deliver some of it's *own* software for the 10
version (Omnistorage and the OV NNM interconnect, traffic, and history
applications). The O.S. still does very weird things from time to time
[ever heard of an interrupt service routine using 45% of the available
CPU for hours and hours] and we have to re-boot regularly, although it
has only crashed a couple of time over the last 6 months (in comparasion
we've had only 1 MPE/iX crash since we bought our 967 five years ago).
I'm *not* looking forward to version 11, even though we will be running
a K460/300 in a few months.
My wish is that the K460/300 was really a 979/300, running with
Netscape's SuiteSpot server, the lastest lanquage compilers (necessary
for teaching programming), OpenDesk w/Internet capability (like
OpenMail) and a RDBMS-enabled TurboImage. The Netscape servers are
easily installed and have run with little trouble. I wish I could say
that for HPUX. My feeling is that HP doesn't want to fix Posix on MPE
because it would eat into HPUX profits, yet I think it is short sighted.
If HP fixed and supported Posix on MPE/iX to make porting easy, the
reliability minded business applications users would natually be pulled
toward MPE and they would be happier customers. HP-UX would be best for
those needing the lastest technologies "now" or other "Unix" features
(like fast character i/o) and were willing to pay the price in
reliability and optimal performance, or who were willing to wait for the
patches to make it a halfway decent O.S.
Richard Gambrell
Information Technology Center, Xavier University of Louisiana
vist us at http://www.xula.edu/
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