Re: Ns on SCO Unix

["T.Hval" <th1@ukc.ac.uk>]

I am not trying to be rude anybody. I just wanted to know if there are any
known problems with using Ns on SCO Unix( when refering to ns, I mean all
the components included in the allinone distribution), as from my
experience with ns installations(on RedHat platforms) there was some
problems.

Tor Hval

 On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Sean Murphy wrote:

> > Or is it just to wade through the usuall amount of problems associated
> > with any ns installation
> 
> Have to say that I, for one, had no problems with ns installation (the
> 2.1b5-allinone), and a number of the problems that I've seen posted to the
> mailing list have been related to other components of the system (tcl in
> particular), or peoples inability to diagnose basic compiler/linker
> configuration problems, rather than ns itself (I suppose autoconf should
> catch most of the latter, but ns is not a commercial product - people
> don't have time to polish it as much as they like, I'm sure).
> 
> I did have a problem with 2.1b6-current of some time ago, which I reported
> to the list, but since this is a snapshot and not a release, I was
> half-expecting some problems.
> 
> Only a minority of mail on the mailing list is related to installation,
> and a significant amount of that is ms-windows related, and since ns
> wasn't designed on windows and uses a number of components that also were
> designed with a unix focus, this is not surprising. So, I think that many
> people can install ns without difficulty.
> 
> I think ns is a good tool provided free of charge, and I appreciate the
> efforts of the development team.
> 
> Sean.
> 
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