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Date:      Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:06:05 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
To:        Jean-Louis Thirot <thirot@univ-brest.fr>
Cc:        Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FW: Re: TkWine setup under FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990420110511.11384U-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
In-Reply-To: <371C993F.5D4579D2@univ-brest.fr>

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On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Jean-Louis Thirot wrote:

> Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Conrad Sabatier wrote:
> >
> > > The following is a message I sent to the author of "TkWine", a nice tool
> > > for downloading, configuring, building. installing and running Wine, which
> > > unfortunately, doesn't work on FreeBSD!
> > >
> > > I'm really not knowledgeable enough to provide the information he requested
> > > in response, so I thought this might be a good place to ask.  :-)
> > >
> > > I've Cc'ed this message to the author, to include him in any discussion
> > > that arises.  He seems genuinely interested in getting this thing to work
> > > under FreeBSD.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Conrad
> >
> > He's asking how to get the number of processors in a FreeBSD
> > system.  If he must know this then he can take the output of:
> >
> > `sysctl -n hw.ncpu`
> >
> > that will give him the number of CPUs in a FreeBSD box.
> >
> > If he has any other questions, or you wish to post a URL to
> > his program I can show him other ways of getting this system dependant
> > information from FreeBSD.
> >
> > i think the uname he wants from freebsd is:
> >
> > uname -srm
> >
> > which on my box is:
> >
> > FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386
> >
> > (this is the experimental version of freebsd, akin to the odd numbered
> > kernel releases of linux)
> >
> > on a non-developemental version he should expect
> > FreeBSD 3.[0-9](\.[0-9])?-STABLE i386
> >
> > meaning 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.2.1
> >
> > i think he should really just grab the output of "uname"
> > which is "FreeBSD"  most freebsd systems behave the same way.
> 
> Thanks a lot to both Conrad and Alfred.
> The above info is enough for this point...
> I'll come back to you when somebody complains again about some linuxism in my
> script!
> (I'm quite sure there are a few of them, just let me know!)

Cool, we just want to see more programs available for people using
alternate operating systems :)

> 
> Bye,
> Jean-Louis
> 

-Alfred 



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