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Date:      Tue, 30 Jan 2001 10:03:44 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        "gspriet1@home.com" <spriet@gti.cc>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Compatibility with applications made under SCO ?
Message-ID:  <20010130100344.A9038@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010129213540.B39756@xor.obsecurity.org>; from "Kris Kennaway" on Mon Jan 29 21:35:40 GMT 2001
References:  <03f601c08a31$fc748860$0400a8c0@wido1.on.home.com> <20010129213540.B39756@xor.obsecurity.org>

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In the last episode (Jan 29), Kris Kennaway said:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:28:02PM +0100, gspriet1@home.com wrote:
> > I have applications running with SCO Open Server
> > using the Microsoft Cobol Compiler (1990)
> > My company maintain more that 16,000 users with this application program !
> > will they run on FreeBSD,
> > Is there anything special to do to make SCO Unix based programs work,
> > Do I need a kind of emulator or do I need to change something in the programs ?
> 
> I believe FreeBSD has a binary compatability layer for SCO binaries -
> you can enable it in /etc/rc.conf.
> 
> ibcs2_enable="NO"       # Ibcs2 (SCO) emulation loaded at startup (or NO).
> 
> I've never used it myself.

iBCS2 emulation works very well.  Note that this is binary emulation
for SCO 3.2v4.2 (coff) binaries.  SCO 5.0.* (elf svr2) binaries are not
supported.



-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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