From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 1 11:48:22 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA20292 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 11:48:22 -0800 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA20147 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 11:47:02 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA02146; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 12:42:47 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199512011942.MAA02146@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Where is the documentation for ibcs2? To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 12:42:47 -0700 (MST) Cc: jfieber@indiana.edu, terry@lambert.org, lyndon@orthanc.com, grog@lemis.de, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <8410.817797849@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 30, 95 10:04:09 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1482 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Indeed, and speaking from my experience as an ISV who was actively > part of SCO's developer program (doing ports of 1-2-3 and NOTES to > SCO) I can tell you that SCO's official party line for *years* was > "don't use our shared libraries - please link all commercial apps > static." > > There are a lot of static apps out there. You have the SCO compatible "install" script written yet so you can actually "install as a third party app"? I also happen to know that Lotus 1-2-3's SVR3 port uses the return of the uname as "copy protection" during the install when putting together a binary file that the installed program then references when the application is run. So install is a three-toed bitch, unless you take an SVR3 box, snapshot the whole system, install the package (after changing the system name to match the FreeBSD box name), snapshot the tree again and use the diffs to identify an "install image", tar up an "install image", deinstall the binaries on the SVR3 system, and change the name of the SVR3 system back. Then you take the tar image and put it on the BSD box. Installing Sybase, Word, MS BASIC, and FoxBase are all similarly involved. Without IBCS2 install tools all you are doing is taking a person with an uloaded gun, loading it for them, and saying "aim for your foot". Better that you not load the gun. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.