Eric Thomas <ERIC@LEPICS>
Thu, 2 Nov 89 14:39:05 GMT
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>Turgut !! Come on :-) .. If I'm not mistaken LISTSERV runs on VM/XA in
>370-mode. I could be wrong on that.
Christian, the rest of your analysis is correct but this is unfortunately
not. It is true that LISTSERV runs in 370-mode - if you started it in an
XA machine, it wouldn't go very far before crashing. However you should
know that VM/XA is not fully compatible with VM/SP, even in a 370
machine, and that there are a number of things which had to be changed in
1.6 to solve minor, yet painful, problems. Even in 1.6c I found a problem
with incoming DISK DUMP files and had to write a fix that will go in
1.6d. Although 1.5o does start without problem and work "for most things"
under VM/XA, there are definitely a number of things that create
problems. Turgut should probably have looked deeper into the problem
before calling it an "XA support problem", but on the other hand I can't
blame him for not trying to fix XA-related problems since the EARN
Association has not been able to provide him with access to an XA
development machine.
Eric
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