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price@helios.unl.edu (Chad  Price) writes:

>francis@ese.ogi.edu (Francis Moraes) writes:

>>keating@casemo.UUCP (John Keating ) writes:

>>>I'm planning on trying out IBM's TCP/IP product, and have some questions
..... 

>>>(3) With the X-Window System (02G6980), will it allow me to display Sun's
>>>    OpenWindows programs?

>>No problems.

>I have had problems: mailtool crashes when attempting to use my display,
>however all of the standard X stuff works, both from a Sun and an RS-6000. I
>haven't tried the SGI yet.

With me everything works except that cmdtool does not give up keyboard and 
opening options in the Sun's clock crashes the X (but not OS/2). 

>>>(4) How easy is the installation?  One hour, two, four, three days?

>>If you know what you're doing, one hour. I'm not a networking expert
>>by any means but I got it up in about an hour. It doesn't require that
>>you know all that much.

>I think this is a little optimistic. I wound up getting help from our IBM rep,
>as the straight install didn't work. I could now probably do it in an hour or
>2, but only because I've now read ALL of the readme files, and have done it
>before. The install _program_ does not complete the job, and you need to move
>some files around by hand. (as in the TCP/IP drivers.)

Worked right away for me; no major problems.

IBM TCP/IP certainly was not a mature product when it was released, but it 
matures fast (see new CSDs every month), and some components are quite good.
I have not had major problems with ftp or NFS recently, and the mail program
with built-in spelling checker is very useful. Even the news reader is
finally working, even though posting and replying is not very easy yet (this 
is in the work, the developer says).  The most troublesome
part of TCPIP was X-Windows that in the past locked, grabbed keybords, lost
focus permanently, caused system freezes. The latest version (BB02052)
seems to be stable, at last.
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