From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 20 0:51:18 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 00:51:15 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16AC237B402 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 00:51:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (Ipittythefoolthattrustsident@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA12195; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 00:51:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBK8p6H42255; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 00:51:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 00:51:06 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Stephen McKay Cc: "Donald J . Maddox" , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is compatibility for old aout binaries broken? Message-ID: <20001220005106.F41741@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <20001216161756.A6370@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <200012171658.eBHGwGW24109@dungeon.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200012171658.eBHGwGW24109@dungeon.home>; from mckay@thehub.com.au on Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 02:58:16AM +1000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: obrien@NUXI.com Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 02:58:16AM +1000, Stephen McKay wrote: > >The other day, on a whim, I decided to try running an old binary > >of SimCity (the same one found in the 'commerce' directory on > >many FBSD cds), and it failed in a odd way... Does anyone have any old a.out binaries other than SimCity that they have problems with? I've installed the SimCity package, compat20 and compat21 dists, but cannot get it to run: Starting SimCity ... SimCity Classic - UNIX / Tcl & Tk Toolkit version 3.6b - Mattes Adding a player on dragon:0.0 ... Display Visual = truecolor Display Depth = 24 SimCity can't find an 8 bit color or 1 bit monochrome display on "dragon:0.0". SimCity: error in TCL code: bad window path name ".head0" -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message