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Date:      Thu, 31 Jul 1997 11:00:20 +0930 (CST)
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Bahamat@msn.com (Brian Bennett)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: portable software
Message-ID:  <199707310130.LAA18390@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <UPMAIL10.199707302019050510@msn.com> from Brian Bennett at "Jul 30, 97 08:17:10 pm"

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Brian Bennett writes:
> can I use software written for SCO, BSDI, or another type of UNIX system with
> FreeBSD?  I'm particularly intrested in SCO

FreeBSD executes BSD/OS executables directly.  With the help of
emulation libraries, it can also execute SCO coff files (but not x.out
and other such), and Linux executables.  Don't expect 100% SCO
compatibility, but people have reported success in a number of cases.

Greg





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