SCO 6 (RE: FW: The grand finale)

[John Esak]

>
> Ok .. Now that I was about to upgrade to SCO 6 I see this ..
>
> What conserns should I have (if any) of upgrading my system
> from 5.0.7 to 6.  Will Filepro / VSIFAX / BARPRO+ binaries from
> 5.0.7 run ok on 6 ?
>
> >From another thread I see the System command was mentioned.
> We used quite a bit in our processing to call "sh" scripts/commands.
> Will I need modify script find (More then just the #!/bin/sh line) ?
>
> Thanks as always ..
> Doug L

Yes, they run. The filePro programs we have tried, all work just fine.
However, I have not specifically tried excercising the SYSTEM command, which
calls a different shell on 6.0 instead of /bin/sh. Even if you have the
SHELL environment variable set to /bin/sh, it still calls this other korn
type shell. What this will break in my system? I don't know. However, I know
FP Technologies has built a new 6.0 set of programs to work around this.

On the whole, I'm still planning to move to the 6.0 as soon as possible, and
just deal with whatever other problems come up... None have been
debilitating to filePro in any way yet. But you will have to make some small
adjustments. For example, some comapnies are simply not going to make
drivers for SCO 6. "Not ever." Exact words from an executive at Multitech.
This particular driver is for our multi-fax board... something which cost
$795 and is now useless to us. Digiboard says they *will* be making drivers
for their multi-modem cards. We'll just have to wait.

I won't/can't tell you that SCO 6 is a drop-in situation... though it realy
should be... and may be for you.

John Esak