Xenix 386 help, Thanks!

[Bill Kennedy]

First let me say "Thank You" for all of the kind offers I got.  I think
I acknowledged everyone, but there was such a flurry, please forgive me
if I overlooked someone.

I'll take a little bit of net bandwidth in hopes of saving other readers
the same difficulty I had.

lp driver -  Seems that DOS and Microport are both able to distinguish
             between the parallel port on the monochrome card and an add
             in card, Xenix is not.  I moved the jumpers on the add in card
             to the lp2 position, poof!  I'm printing.

uucp permissions - I was not able to make any incantations that would allow
             this machine to transfer files into the Xenix box.  I tried
             every combination in USERFILE and everything else.  Then it
             dawned on me that /u is a separate file system and maybe that
             was the problem.  I can't claim or prove that it was, but when
             I put the directory I wanted to use in /usr/spool, everything
             works great!  I'm not even curious as to why, as I think I said
             in the original m'aidez, I just want to use it.

smail, mailx, news - SCO is sending me a news diskette, smail was a matter
             of eliminating the /bin and /usr/bin confusion and mailx just
             needed to be pointed at /usr/spool/mail instead of /usr/mail.

I suppose I should not have complained about the last three since they were
so simple but at that point I was still trying to make friends with the
compiler...  As a return favor, I have successfully installed Faircom's new
C-tree v4.3 background server (*very* nice and typical Faircom solid) and I
am within a couple of hours of having R-tree up and running.  I will be glad
to help anyone who might be struggling with them.  All in all Faircom did a
pretty decent job, it's obvious that they had to guess at some things.

In conclusion, there are industrial strength rumors going around that the
Honey DanBer uucp will be available this year.  I have considerable experience
with HDB and will be glad to help anyone who needs it when it's available.
Speaking only for myself, I am going to *run*, not walk to get HDB as soon as
it's out.  It's really no more mysterious than the one we have, it's just that
the docs stink and, therefore, make it look less approachable.  Again, many
thanks,  I'll shut up until I have something to contribute.
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