From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 30 8: 4: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CB0E37B684 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:03:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0UG3iR14542; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 10:03:44 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 10:03:44 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Kris Kennaway Cc: "gspriet1@home.com" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compatibility with applications made under SCO ? Message-ID: <20010130100344.A9038@dan.emsphone.com> References: <03f601c08a31$fc748860$0400a8c0@wido1.on.home.com> <20010129213540.B39756@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.14i In-Reply-To: <20010129213540.B39756@xor.obsecurity.org>; from "Kris Kennaway" on Mon Jan 29 21:35:40 GMT 2001 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message