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Date:      Thu, 21 May 1998 17:46:20 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "J.A. Terranson" <sysadmin@mfn.org>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "'George Yobst'" <george@lincc.lib.or.us>
Subject:   Re: Unixware Compatibility
Message-ID:  <19980521174620.E27201@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <01BD845F.F95F64E0@w3svcs.mfn.org>; from J.A. Terranson on Thu, May 21, 1998 at 02:27:16AM -0500
References:  <01BD845F.F95F64E0@w3svcs.mfn.org>

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On Thu, 21 May 1998 at  2:27:16 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote:
>
> <SNIP>
> I've got an application that was written for SCO's Unixware 1.1 that
> I want to run on FBSD.  I tried using 'brandelf' on 2.2.6, but...
> <SNIP>
>
> SCO UnixWare 1.1 is actually SVR4.0.1,

In fact, it's Novell UnixWare, and it's SVR4.2.

> so you should probably try compiling a new kernel with SH* support
> (see LINT) before deciding on anything radical...  No guarantees
> (obviously), but unless your app is running something dependent on
> the SVR4 asm code (like a COBOL or PASCAL P-system) you can probably
> get it to work.

The problem here is the executables, which aren't recognized.  At the
moment we have no support for SVR4.

Greg
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