Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 23:28:10 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: Rhyader <rhyader@surfari.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can I run my useful linux utilities? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812052324240.441-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981205201738.007a83f0@surfari.net>
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On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Rhyader wrote: >Question: Does BSD Unix have "zip" and "unzip" ? Yes. These are installed as third party software. >Red Hat Linux had "Midnight Commander" - a linux version of the DOS >"Norton Commander"... I can't imagine using DOS or linux without >that! I use unix tools to do administration on my machine. I find them far more flexible and powerful than even the Norton Commander that I loved in DOS land. >Could you run these in BSD Unix ? >I am told that BSD Unix has a linux emulator. Can the linux emulator be >used to run these programs ? Absolultely! You wont need the emulator for zip/unzip because you can get native binaries for these. As for the Commander, it will run under the Linuxulator. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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