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Date:      Sat, 27 Apr 1996 00:45:38 GMT
From:      James Raynard <jraynard@dial.pipex.com>
To:        candy@fct.kgc.co.jp
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SCO binary compatibility?
Message-ID:  <199604270045.AAA03726@dial.pipex.com>
In-Reply-To: <199604260227.LAA04766@xxx.fct.kgc.co.jp> (message from Toshihiro Kanda on Fri, 26 Apr 1996 11:27:50 %2B0900)

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>>>>> Toshihiro Kanda <candy@fct.kgc.co.jp> writes:
> 
>  My `uname -srm' is "FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386".
>   /usr/share/doc/handbook/handbook.ascii says "Binary compatibility
> with many programs built for SCO,..."  But when I tried to run SCO
> binary(file(1) tells it is an `80386 COFF executable'), FreeBSD run it
> as a shell script.  So it failed by syntax error :-(
> 
>   Why can't I run the binary?  Any kernel options needed?

Not that I know of. Do you have IBCS2 enabled in the last line of
/etc/sysconfig, ie

# Set to YES if you want ibcs2 (SCO) emulation loaded at startup
ibcs2=YES

Cheers
James

-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
mail:	jraynard@dial.pipex.com



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