From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 1 16:47:59 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA08714 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 16:47:59 -0800 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA08707 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 16:47:38 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA02956; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 17:43:32 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199512020043.RAA02956@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Where is the documentation for ibcs2? To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 17:43:32 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jfieber@indiana.edu, lyndon@orthanc.com, grog@lemis.de, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <2166.817854782@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Dec 1, 95 01:53:02 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1070 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I still think that it's possible to derive benefit from the sea of SCO > apps out there, even without a working install. Yes, it's harder, but > it may also prove in many instances to make the difference between > letting a developer keep FreeBSD on his work PC or having his boss > demand he load SCO so that he can run some commercial app of import to > the company. > > [insert picture of a sad eyed programmer sitting at a PC running SCO, > looking dolefully at the camera] > > "For little Timmy's sake - isn't it worth it?" Well, you own the BSD install, so: are you going to offer a "binary compatability" menu option and hack /etc/sysconfig and /etc/rc so as to make the binaries "just run" if the option is chosen? Then they won't need doc, except on the install, and they will have to make that up for themselves on a per application basis inany case until the full IBCS2 environment is supported (if it ever is). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.