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Date:      Wed, 14 May 1997 10:30:54 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co (Pedro F. Giffuni)
Cc:        emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Linux emulation problem
Message-ID:  <199705140100.KAA19294@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <337904B8.F8A@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> from "Pedro F. Giffuni" at "May 13, 97 05:18:00 pm"

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Pedro F. Giffuni stands accused of saying:
> Hi,
> I'm using Fbsd 2.1.1, to try a program that never ran under 2.1.7.
> http://www.zib-berlin.de/Symbolik/reduce/
> Reduce is a math system design under LISP. REDUCE's distribution
> includes this lisp. 2.2.1's emulation is much better than previous
> versions but it still doesn't run the demo version REDUCE for Linux:
> 
> $ sh reduce
> Loading image file :./rdemo.img 
> file too short
> 
> It's curious that no real error message is given by FreeBSD. Has anyone
> tried to run this?

No, but we used to get "too short" error messages with IDL under 2.1.x.
A good start would be to ktrace the program and see if it's actually
trying to read stuff and misinterpreting the error message.

> 	--Pedro.

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