On what services and libraries can I count?

Here's what I mean: I encounter some 10.x (here's a 10.20,
for example) hosts that lack, for example, any threading
library. In principle, DCE supplies a reliable user-space
threads package, and, in principle, 10.x provides DCE. 10.x
seems, though, not always to install DCE. I'd welcome a
crisp explanation of ... well, the stuff I want to know.
Have I correctly described DCE? Why wasn't it installed at
the factory? Are there comparable "layered products" stories
I should know for 11.x?
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Cameron Laird <claird@phaseit.net>
Business: http://www.Phaseit.net

In article <vvlsqo883j92ef@corp.supernews.com>, I wondered:
>On what services and libraries can I count?
>
>Here's what I mean: I encounter some 10.x (here's a 10.20,
>for example) hosts that lack, for example, any threading
>library. In principle, DCE supplies a reliable user-space
>threads package, and, in principle, 10.x provides DCE. 10.x
>seems, though, not always to install DCE. I'd welcome a
>crisp explanation of ... well, the stuff I want to know.
>Have I correctly described DCE? Why wasn't it installed at
>the factory? Are there comparable "layered products" stories
>I should know for 11.x?

On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 15:33:06 +0000, Cameron Laird wrote:

> In article <vvlsqo883j92ef@corp.supernews.com>, I wondered:

> Is this true:
> A 10.x host can have exactly one of
> HP-VUE
> CDE
> installed. If HP-VUE is installed, then there's no support for a
> threading library.

No. Both VUE & CDE can be installed at the same time. Only one of the
login managers (vuelogin / dtlogin) can be used, though, since they will
both attempt to use UDP port 177 for XDMCP.

This has no connection whatsoever to DCE/threads.

> What programmatic facilities are available to determine what (WM,
> libraries, ...) is installed?

You shouldn't be developing on 10.x anyway, as it has been out of support
since 6/30/2003.