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Date:      Mon, 25 May 1998 09:25:16 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        amg <ursa@cris.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   UnixWare compatibility (was: Help)
Message-ID:  <19980525092516.L15604@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <35689521.167EB0E7@cris.com>; from amg on Sun, May 24, 1998 at 04:46:09PM -0500
References:  <35689521.167EB0E7@cris.com>

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On Sun, 24 May 1998 at 16:46:09 -0500, amg wrote:
> Questions:
>
>     Does the FreeBSD SCO binary compatibility option allow one to
>   use a 3rd party library, that has been compiled for SCO UnixWare 2.1,
>   to be used when compiling binaries on a FreeBSD platform,
> specifically,
>   2.2.X??

No.  SCO compatibility is for iBCS2, which is the System V.3 standard
used by SCO UNIX (also called Open Desktop).  UnixWare (previously
Novell UnixWare) is System V.4 and uses a completely different object
format.  We currently don't have support for it.

Greg
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