From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Oct 9 21:47:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA23014 for emulation-outgoing; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 21:47:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-emulation) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (SRI-56K-FR.mt.net [206.127.65.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA23005 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 21:47:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA15732; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 22:46:47 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA18916; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 22:46:45 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 22:46:45 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199710100446.WAA18916@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: dkelly@hiwaay.net Cc: Martin Cracauer , Thomas David Rivers , freebsd-emulation@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: LINUX emulation and uname(3). In-Reply-To: <199710100210.VAA13256@nospam.hiwaay.net> References: <19971010014016.54859@cons.org> <199710100210.VAA13256@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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