From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 7 8:56:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D673B14E66 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 08:56:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id <4CMXC8WH>; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 11:56:11 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105CD0@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: 'Kenneth Wayne Culver' , Jason Lewis Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: again... Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 11:59:05 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes, but they are pre-compiled for FreeBSD! If you have a precompiled binary for a Sparc or alpha, or a number of other os's then no it won't work. If you have a pre-compiled binary FreeBSD (on i386) then yes it will work. Also, of course there is linux and SCO (?) emulation that will run binaries from those platforms as well. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Kenneth Wayne Culver [SMTP:culverk@wam.umd.edu] > Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 11:02 AM > To: Jason Lewis > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: again... > > Actually that's not quite correct, most of the ports for FreeBSD are also > precompiled as packages. > > > ================================================================= > | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best OS around. | > | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | > | and student at The | AIM: AgRSkaterq | > | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | > | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| > ================================================================= > > On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Jason Lewis wrote: > > > Pre-Compiled: no, source code and scripting: yes . > > > > >Sorry to bother you AGAIN but I forgot one more question...can you use > any > > >UNIX Programs on FreeBSD? (e.g. perl) > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message