From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue May 13 18:02:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA29858 for emulation-outgoing; Tue, 13 May 1997 18:02:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA29849 for ; Tue, 13 May 1997 18:02:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id KAA19294; Wed, 14 May 1997 10:30:55 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199705140100.KAA19294@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Linux emulation problem In-Reply-To: <337904B8.F8A@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> from "Pedro F. Giffuni" at "May 13, 97 05:18:00 pm" To: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co (Pedro F. Giffuni) Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 10:30:54 +0930 (CST) Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[