From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 26 16:58:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA12721 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 16:58:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA12716 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 16:58:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA06036; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 16:40:50 -0700 Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 16:40:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Toshihiro Kanda cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCO binary compatibility? In-Reply-To: <199604260227.LAA04766@xxx.fct.kgc.co.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, Toshihiro Kanda wrote: > 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? No, but you need to turn it on in /etc/sysconfig. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major