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I have talked on the phone to John since I started this reply, but I
thought a few questions here should be on the record.
Once again, my apologies -- I guess that these didn't seem like high
priority questions at teh time, but I admit that is a poor excuse.
> Okay, I just plucked your address out of the mail convo you had
> with Gary. I have joined csuite-dev. Should I be joining csuite-tech
> as well?
csuite-tech is pretty high traffic, but you do get up to the minute
reports on what is happening here. I recommend it over the short term.
> Okay. We have a target of the end of March for being
> operational, so I do have to get moving on it. Please keep me
> apprised. I'll be out of town for two days this week, but I'll try to
> put a full day in on it.
>
> } gone into beta1 so you should see an easier install. We have not yet
> } tested it one Solaris, but the biggest portability problems should have
> } been solved on an earlier version, so I don't think it will be a big
> } problem.
>
> We have an old Sun 3/160 which was donated to us. It currently
> has SunOS 4.0.3 on it. I plan on installing NetBSD on it. Have you
> done any recent tests with any version of BSD UNIX?
No, we have no platform on which to do it. We would certainly be
receptive to doing so if we have a network-accessable machine
with root access so we can run remote diagnostics and fix things.
> } > The second thing is do you have anything to aid in converting
> } > from freeport to CSuite? One of the guys here has written a PERL
> }
> } I'm afraid that we have nothing to aid in the conversion. However, we
> } definitely want both Freeport conversion aids and NIS+ (maybe) --
>
> Okay, I guess that will be my next task after getting the basic
> system operational. I'm pretty sure you will want NIS+ at some point.
Why do you like NIS+?
> } > The final concern (at the moment) is VCN's. How far along is the
> } > stuff that comes with CSuite? If not, can I get precise details on
> }
> } VCN's are part way. We use virtual IP addresses, virtual telnet service,
> } [snip]
> } currently). If you work on it before we do, we would like to work closely
> } with you -- I would advise some time with non-VCN CSuite first.
>
> I will have to VCN's pretty much as soon as I have an operational
> system, but I will get into it more later.
>
> } We are even prepared to work toward the situation where outside workers
> } have access to our CVS repository.
>
> This would be good.
>
> What version of Lynx are you currently using? If it's not 2.6,
> we'll probably be looking at integrating it.
We are distributing late 2.6 now and 2.7 by release of 1.0
>
> }-- End of excerpt from David Trueman
>
David Trueman,
Systems Manager, Dalhousie Math, Stats and Computing Science
Technical Chair, Chebucto Community Net
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