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Old 01-16-2007, 12:27 PM   #1
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Can Solaris run in ASCII mode??


I was just wondering if ASCII pertains to all UNIX hosts or not?? Esp. with Solaris...

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Old 01-16-2007, 01:27 PM   #2
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ASCII is a character set not a "mode".

Short answer is yes ASCII is used by all UNIX/LINUX flavors as well as DOS/Windows. Mainframes use something called EBCDIC instead of ASCII so there is a difference there.

Longer answer though is that "ASCII" is used to mean many things. If you do "file <filename>" it may tell you it is a ASCII file (meaning it contains no special characters. If you do an ftp you tell it to do "binary" meaning don't do any formatting of what you send or "ascii" which tells it do some stuff with that.

I suspect what you meant to ask was can Solaris do a CLI (Comand Line Interface) as opposed to a GUI (Graphical User Interface) so that you don't need a graphics card and display. The answer to that is yes (or at least was through 5.8 - I haven't used Solaris 10).
 
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jlightner is correct, text console mode can be used with Solaris. This is still true with Solaris 10 and newer, and this is in fact true with all other Unix and Unix like O/Ses. GUI is always an optional layer, well perhaps Mac OS X is an exception here.

Some high end Sun servers do not even have a graphic card, so the CLI is definitely mandatory with them.
 
  


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