From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 23 13:44:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA09720 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 13:44:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA09691; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 13:44:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA08299; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 13:33:49 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 13:33:49 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199608231933.NAA08299@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: Julian Elischer Cc: Nate Williams , hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dumb question about SCO compat In-Reply-To: <321E069C.31D2DE92@whistle.com> References: <199608231614.MAA05605@arf.cs.sunyit.edu> <199608231808.MAA07705@rocky.mt.sri.com> <321E069C.31D2DE92@whistle.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Julian Elischer writes: > Nate Williams 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 > > there's a word here that is missing... built? bought? ordered? > and if so who do we talk to to get copies of these? As has been posted multiple times, SCO is giving away 'personal' copies of SCO OpenServer 5. Free, no-cost copies, other than the cost of getting media ($19). It includes the SCO development system. Nate