Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 21:41:25 +0200 (MET DST) From: sos@freebsd.org To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: green@arf.cs.sunyit.edu, hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dumb question about SCO compat Message-ID: <199608231941.VAA20905@ra.dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <199608231808.MAA07705@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Aug 23, 96 12:08:19 pm
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In reply to Nate Williams who wrote: > > > Quite awhile back I heard someone mention that at one point > > they had a large subset of SCO running under the SCO (ibcs2) compat on > > a FreeBSD system. I also believe that he was using the shared libs > > scarfed off of a SCO system. (Finally to the question!) How possible > > is that now if I were to order the SCO Free* OpenServer and used those > > libs? > > It may have been Terry, but I've had some significant SCO applications > running under emulation. I had to use SCO shlibs initially, but since > it required SCO licenses for every application it made no sense, so I > versions of the commercial software used which didn't use SCO shlibs. I think it may have been me, when I did the original ibcs2 code I had a complete SCO 3.2v2.0 system install chroot'ed, and it workd just fine as a cross dev environment. things like ps and such did of cause not work... > > I'm curious as to how much that would help in attempting to run > > something like SCO's oracle, word perfect, etc. > > That's the same reason I'm ordering it. Me too :), lets see what theyve got, and se if there is something we need to emulate :) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team So much code to hack -- so little time.
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