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Subject: Re: Running Linux' Acrobat reader under 215R?
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19961217061222.006b43d0@cyclone.degnet.baynet.de> from Darius Moos at "Dec 17, 96 06:12:23 am"
To: moos@webmore.com (Darius Moos)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 08:40:41 +0100 (MET)
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> If you just want to read .pdf-files, you could use xpdf.

xpdf is known to be inadequate or insufficient in some respects.


> 
> Darius Moos.
> 
> At 21:58 16.12.96 +0100, you wrote:
> >According to Wilko Bulte:
> >> I did not pay much attention to Linux emulation in the past, so I'm
> >> wondering if ELF linux binaries have any chance of working anyway.
> >> This is on 2.1.5R with COMPAT_LINUX etc in the kernel.
> >
> >Forget about ELF in 2.1.*. Only 2.2+ versions are able to run ELF binaries,
> >be they FreeBSD or Linux ones. There is a port for 3.0-CURRENT of acroread
> >in ports/print/acroread.
> >
> >-- 
> >Ollivier ROBERT    -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-    roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
> >  FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #31: Tue Dec  3 23:52:58 CET 1996
> >
> >
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de