Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 22:46:45 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: dkelly@hiwaay.net Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>, freebsd-emulation@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: LINUX emulation and uname(3). Message-ID: <199710100446.WAA18916@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199710100210.VAA13256@nospam.hiwaay.net> References: <cracauer@cons.org> <19971010014016.54859@cons.org> <199710100210.VAA13256@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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> For kicks today I decided to see if an IDL 5.0 demo would run under > FreeBSD. It quickly quit, unable to ID the system to one it knew. Was > still running startup shell scripts at the time. > > I put ~/bin in the front of $path, and a uname shell script that simply > said "echo Linux". Got IDL to run a little bit further. Said it thought > I had pseudo 8 color when it really wanted TrueColor 16. Then it died. > > Am not going to lose any sleep over it. Thought someone might be > interested. I know of at least one person who runs IDL5 in production mode on FreeBSD, so I'm unsure why you had problems. Nate
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