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From: cim2@pyuxv.UUCP (Robert L. Fair)
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Subject: EX/ NCR TOWER
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Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 10:51:11 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 22 10:51:11 1985
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>I have an application which needs to run an editor script with ex (sed
>and ed will not do).  Even though my environment is properly set with
>TERM and TERMCAP, when I type "ex < file", the editor does not seem to
>know my terminal type.  On the VAX (4.2) this is not so bad, but on an
>NCR Tower ex refused to do any editing without a cursor addressable
>terminal.  Depending upon specifics, I got messages like:
>    Terminal must have UP capability to use open/visual mode
>(even thought the only command in the file was "set"), or
>    Unknown terminal type "dumb"
>
>Is anyone familiar with this problem?  Is there a workaround?
>By the way, does the Tower have a Unisoft port?
>	Thanks in advance,

The answer is yes, ( I think )  NCR UNIX release 1 was indeed
UNISOFT based, and had a number of funnies like the ex problem
above.

To fix these problems ( & others...) NCR did their own 
in-house port for their UNIX Release 2 (Out Spring 1985) 

Its based on the AT&T System-V VAX tape with lots 
of Berserkely goodies, plus things like ***full*** power fail
recovery, file locking,  and a really neat distributed 
kernel. In fact its one of the nicest UNIX implementations I've
ever used, especially with the hardware support on the TOWER-XP.

So, try upgrading from Release-1 if you havn't done so already.
Otherwise, try talking to NCR direct - I've found them to be 
pretty helpful in getting fixes.

Rob. Fair.
Bellcore, Piscataway.

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