Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 11:37:57 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Kirill Sapelkin <znanie@best.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Xenix binaries under FreeBSD? Message-ID: <19990304113757.P441@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199903040104.RAA12250@shell5.ba.best.com>; from Kirill Sapelkin on Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 05:04:52PM -0800 References: <19990303195854.C441@lemis.com> <199903040104.RAA12250@shell5.ba.best.com>
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Please don't overlook: >> When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. >> For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html On Wednesday, 3 March 1999 at 17:04:52 -0800, Kirill Sapelkin wrote: >> On Tuesday, 2 March 1999 at 21:43:01 -0800, Kirill Sapelkin wrote: >>> Is it possible to run Xenix binaries on FreeBSD? I think there are two >>> types Large and Small. >> >> On Tuesday, 2 March 1999 at 21:43:01 -0800, Kirill Sapelkin wrote: >> >> There are several types of binary on XENIX. Large and small are 286 >> binaries which are closer in format to Microsoft than to UNIX, and >> sorry, they're not supported. COFF binaries, on the other hand, work >> fine with the iBCS2 module. > > Thanks for your reply. That's what I was afraid of. I guess my last > question would be: Is there some utility to change XENIX binaries to > COFF? Not that I know of. The problem with the versions you're looking at is that they're in a different machine code (8086 16-bit mode, as opposed to 80386 32-bit mode). FreeBSD doesn't support 16 bit programs. Things might be different for x.out 32-bit programs, but I don't even know of a converter there. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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