From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 2 7:43:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7B6337B6BF for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 07:43:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA18635; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 09:43:40 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 09:43:40 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Vernon Buck Jr Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: SCO Unix Apps & FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000602094340.B13546@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20000601171628.14193.qmail@nwcst290.netaddress.usa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000601171628.14193.qmail@nwcst290.netaddress.usa.net>; from "Vernon Buck Jr" on Thu Jun 1 12:16:28 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jun 01), Vernon Buck Jr said: > We sell SCO OpenServer systems with a Unix App called Medical Manager > for Doctor Offices, I am Considering switching to FreeBSD as the > Platform are their any considerations particular to SCO that I might > need to look for? FreeBSD's IBCS binary emulation is very good. This will run SCO 3.2v4.2-compiled programs. Programs built with SCO OSR5 are SVR4 ELF binaries, and our SVR4 emulation is nowhere near complete enough to run those binaries. The best solution is always to recompile the source for FreeBSD and run it as a native binary, but sometimes that's not possible. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message