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The latest edition of the Solaris SW list is appended to this message.
I am posting it to a few additional groups today, but it is generally
only posted to comp.unix.solaris.  Please feel free to send comments
and corrections.  Also, please send information to help fill in the gaps.

ric steinberger
r...@updike.sri.com

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Last updated: 9/29/92

Solaris 2.x compatibility information.  Here is an attempt to provide
some information about SW that may run under SUN's Solaris 2.x OS.
For now (9/92), feel free to send additional information regarding other
tools that you would like to see included.  If possible, include details
as to whether that product runs under 2.x [include x].  This list is
now available via anonymous FTP from updike.sri.com.
Please send suggestions to: r...@updike.sri.com.

Please use archie or other database to find out where these tools reside.
Most of the GNU programs are on prep.ai.mit.edu.  Many X11 programs
are on export.lcs.mit.edu.  pit-manager.mit.edu is a source for many
other programs.  So is ftp.uu.net.

I will only list a site if a "customized" 2.x-compatible version or
patches exist there.  [I would prefer not to get in the business of
listing distribution sites, as they tend to be very voluable entities.]

Note: Unless otherwise indicated, "builds" means compiles using SUN-supplied
compilers.  

IMPORTANT: If you have built a tool/utility listed here and you needed to
apply one or more patches, PLEASE contact the code's author so that
he/she may examine you efforts and incorporate it into the next release.
This will help everyone.  "HELP SAVE THE WORLD." - Larry Wall.

Status Codes:

1 Current distribution builds under Solaris 2.0
2 Current distribution builds with patches.  [See comments]
  [Most people who claimed that they we able to get XXX to build with
   only a "few" patches have generally been optimistic about others
   ability to do the same.  However this is not necessarily the case.]
3 Current distribution doesn't build yet.
4 Partial build. [See comments]
5 Cygnus distribution includes this.  See vendor/cygnus dir on ftp.uu.net.
6 Binary available.  Binaries have been posted to some sites known
  by archie and other databases.
7 Compiles under 4.x compatibility mode.

Patch distributors:

P1      d...@ecn.purdue.edu

Comment Codes:

Pn  Patches available.  See patch distributors.
 1  Use gcc (cygnus gcc from ftp.uu.net)

Product              Version             Status          Comment

amd (berkeley)
archie                                    2               P1. Minor BSD/SVRV
                                                          problems
bash                  1.12                1,6               1
bison
byacc                                     5
cvs                   1.3                 1
diff pgms             2.0                 1
dig                   2.0                 2                Minor BSD/SYSV
                                                           problems
dvips
eispack
elm                   2.3P11              2
emacs                                     6
epoch                 4.2                 1
fileutils             3.3                 1                 1
flex                                      5
ftptool
gawk
gcc                   2.2.2 ?             5,6
gdb                     4.6               5
ghostscript           2.5.1               1
ghostview                                 1
gopher
grep
INN
jove                  4.14.7              2                 P1
kermit
lapack
linpack
log_tcp
make                  3.62.16+            1
Metafont
MH                    6.7.2               2                 P1
Mtools
nihcl
nn
NNTP
patch
perl
pine
ping (post BSD)                           1
POP
rc                   1.4                  1
rcs                                       1
rn
shellutils           1.7                  1                 1
tar                  1.10                 1                 1
tcl
tcpdump
tcsh                                      6
TeX/LaTeX
textutils            1.3                  1                 1
tgrind
traceroute
WAIS
X11R4
X11R5 p1 17                              2,4                clients & libs
                                                            only. No server.
                                                            P1

Various contributed X11 clients [R4.18 and/or R5.patch_level]

pbmplus
xarchie
xdvi
xfig                2.1.4                 2                 Minor BSD/SYSV
                                                            problems
xli
xlock
xntp
xperfmon
xpipeman            X11R5 contrib         2,7
xpostit              3.1                  2
xrn                  6.17                 2
xtetris             X11R5 contrib         2                Minor stuff
xtroff              X11R5 contrib         1
xv                   2.21                 2,7
xview                3.0.1
xvnews               2.2                  2

SW from SUN that runs under Solaris 2.0:

[Note: It will be *impossible* to make this a complete list.  I will try
 to include the most "popular" software.  

cc
CC (c++)
Developers Guide
fortran
Sunlink FDDI
Sunlink X25
SunNet Manager
SUN PC

Other Commercial:              Runs under Solaris 2.x (Y/N/?)

Adobe Transcript      3.1      Need to build from source
AFS                                     ?
Alsys Ada                               ?
Asterix                                 ?
Aviator                                 ?
BRS-Search                              ?
Codeview/Objectview                     ?
Disspla                                 ?
Empress                                 ?
FrameMaker                              ?
IMSL                                    ?
Informix                                ?
Ingres                                  ?
IslandDraw                              ?
Maple                                   ?
Mathematica                             ?
Matlab                                  ?
Motif                                   ?
Oracle                                  ?
ParcPlace Smalltalk                     ?
PV-WAVE                                 ?      
QMS/Imagen printer SW                   ?
RSX                                     ?
Sybase                                  ?
Teamwork                                ?
Topic                                   ?
Tuxedo                                  ?      
UIM/X                                   ?
WDSF                                    ?
Word Perfect                            N
TMI Parallel Driver                     ?
Xmath                                   ?

[Note: Cygnus offers commercial support for much of the GNU software.
       Their phone number is: 415 322 3811.  I am not a Cygnus employee.]