[NBLUG/talk] SCO 6 / Unix5

[gandalf at sonic.net]

Yesterday I got to work on a SCO6 system installing a backup system. It 
was like using a very old, very odd version of Linux, or perhaps Linux 
is odd and that's more normal. Everything was basically recognizable, 
but oddly different in unexpected ways. I was using putty terminals and 
I never could get the settings right which made everything double the 
pain as none of the special keys worked. Did learn about x/X in VI which 
are handy when the backspace and delete key don't work. Restarting the 
ssh daemon was incredibly difficult. One person advised to find the pid 
and kill it, but I didn't want to kill my session. I think I did find 
the script and run it, but it just gave me an odd command to run. Worked 
when I did it though.