Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 11:38:24 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?dici_=28D=E9veloppement_Informatique_de_C=2EI=29?= <dicidt@africaonline.co.ci> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: SCO XENIX file running Message-ID: <19990226113824.K431@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3C01be60c5$896257e0$LocalHost=40dicidt=3E=3B_from_dici_?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?=28D=E9veloppement_Informatique_de_C=2EI=29_on_Thu=2C_Feb?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_25=2C_1999_at_01:48:33PM_-0000?= References: <01be60c5$896257e0$LocalHost@dicidt>
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[Format recovered at freebie.lemis.com] On Thursday, 25 February 1999 at 13:48:33 -0000, dici (Développement Informatique de C.I) wrote: > On jeudi 25 février 1999 04:34, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote >> On Wednesday, 24 February 1999 at 18:13:05 +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: >>> On 23-Feb-99 dici (Développement Informatique de C.I) wrote: >>>>> Hello, >>>>> Is there a special setting to execute file I used to run on SCO XENIX ? >>> >>> That's part of the SVR4 emulation a couple of guys are working on. I >>> think there's a pointer for it on the webpage under projects. >> >> XENIX has nothing to do with SVR4. It has a number of object formats, >> including COFF (which is supported under iBCS2, though some system >> calls may not be), and x.out, which isn't supported. It's possible, >> but unlikely, that the 286 mode files would work under doscmd. > > Hello Greg, Please note the following lines in my .sig: >> When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. >> For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html I'm copying -questions again: > My mailer is Microsoft Outlook and I apologize for the line wrap. Maybe you should think about a mailer which works. This message had almost correct line breaks, but your message was quoted at the same level as my original. You'll probably find a good UNIX mailer easier to handle. > I thank you for your answers. I've already bought your book, > second edition through which I get my first contact with the OS. > My problem is due to my hurry to behave as I can handle this OS > quickly as I use to run SCO Xenix. But day by day, things seem > less easy. I've bought the book with FreeBSD 2.2.5 CDs which I > installed on a P5-II with Cyrix K2-6 300Mhz. I do my best to move > step by step : installation, sound then, multiports cards, my soft I > use on SCO Xenix ( app written in Thorougbred Basic), etc. > Now I canceled every step to try my app's and I can't even install > the app language (interpreter) and complete this by my own > applications (app's). My move towards FreeBSD makes my first > use of the web. Things are not so easy to do by this side of > Atlantic sea, in Africa. I've set the SCO iBCS to YES in /etc/rc.conf > without success, the result is the display of ascii unreadable > characters such as 'type' command for a .EXE file under > MS-DOS. My country is a french speaking one but I do my best to say what I > need. > Excuse me for I cannot tell you yet great about this file format > but it's a binary one. What does file(1) say? For example (these are real files from a XENIX development environment, viewed on a FreeBSD system): d3var.o: 8086 relocatable (Microsoft) As the name suggests, you can't do much with this libd3form.a: old PDP-11 archive You can't do much with this either, though possibly we could find a version of ar which understands it. But it probably contains relocatables like the preceding entry. filemode: Infocom game data (Z-machine 6, Release 11264, I think that this is x.out. Again, there's not much you can do with it. To be sure, check it like this: $ od -h filemode | more 0000000 0206 002c 2ce8 0000 1400 0000 1520 0000 If the first halfword is 0206, it's x.out. ls: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, dynamically linked, stripped This is a System V.4 ELF file. You shouldn't find any on a XENIX box. If you have them, the System V.4 emulation should handle them I don't have any COFF executables on this machine, but it's quite possible your files are COFF. As I said, you can emulate them with the iBCS2 software. 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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