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From: Michael W.Holdeman <ptfd9100@beanstalk.net>
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Attached a message I recieved from teh Netraverse folks.


Anyone willing to research making this work? I'll do what I can.

Mike


******************************************************************************************Hello 
Mike,

Currently, Merge is only available for SCO/Caldera UnixWare. The main problem 
for Win4Lin support on BSD is the kernel - Win4Lin ties directly into the 
Linux kernel, and the BSD kernel is different enough (and the 
code/libraries/etc are probably different enough) that porting to BSD would 
be non-trivial. Currently, the developers are more interested in improving 
support and features that are available for Linux (adding support for more 
Windows languages, adding Windows ME support, increasing the RAM available 
for Windows, etc) than in porting Win4Lin to a new OS. If we had enough 
large-company/corporate interest in a BSD port, that might change, but at 
present we have no plans for a BSD port.

Please let us know if you have any further questions or comments.

Regards,
Amanda Owens
NeTraverse Support
http://www.netraverse.com/support/

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