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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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