Wow! Thanks for all the help (30-40 responses). I'm sure that you could

tell by my question that I'm not a Sun 'Manager', but I thank you for all

of your responses. I especially thank you all for the graciousness by

which you answered a question that is CLEARLY listed and answered in the

FAQ. Sorry!!!

Ok, so my summary is this:

My inferred question about how SunOS 5.x and Solaris operate together

(which amounted to asking how bread and pb&j sandwiches work together)

was succinctly answered:

Solaris 2.x = SunOS 5.x + goodies

And, a list of the resources for which I'm grateful (though as yet I've

only checked a few)

http://smc.vnet.net/solaris_2.5.html (Solaris Freeware - nice)

http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

http://www.gnu.org

http://gamma.magnet.fsu.edu/download/gnu

http://www.stokely.com/unix.sysadm.resources/faqs.s.html#faq.link.sun

http://www.stokely.com/unix.sysadm.resources/shareware.www.html

http://www.cnt.ru/~ftp/

ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2/

ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/solaris

ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/gnu/solaris-pkgs/

ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/solaris

ftp://ftp.lanet.lv/pub/unix/solaris2/

ftp://nic.switch.ch/mirror/gnu-sparc-solaris/

ftp://ftp.quintus.com/pub/GNU/sparc/

ftp://uwsg.ucs.indiana.edu/pub/solaris/binaries/gnu/

ftp://ftp.fwi.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2.html

ftp://ftp.cnt.ru/pub/unix/solaris