From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 27 14:36:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA13888 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 14:36:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from jolt.eng.umd.edu (jolt.eng.umd.edu [129.2.102.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA13878 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 14:36:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from maryann.eng.umd.edu (maryann.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.209]) by jolt.eng.umd.edu (8.7.3/8.7) with ESMTP id RAA05569; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 17:36:26 -0500 (EST) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by maryann.eng.umd.edu (8.7/8.7) id RAA30696; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 17:32:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 17:32:25 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@maryann.eng.umd.edu To: Peter Wemm cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thot word processor In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On 21 Feb 1996, Peter Wemm wrote: > > >I have spoken with a friend who runs Linux, and he says if we tell him > >exactly what we want, he can probably get it. He's not a beginner, > >either, but I can't tell him, I know nothing about Linux and I haven't > >tried any Linux emulation myself. If you guys can send me a message > >describing what you need, exactly, well, let's see what he can do, OK? > > BTW: -current's Linux emulator now does QMAGIC just fine, as well as ZMAGIC. > > QMAGIC is ***much*** preferred, as it allows proper shared libraries. > If you use ZMAGIC libraries, you do not share any code between processes > and each copy of the program has a seperate copy in memory. Needless to say, > you run out of memory very quickly with ZMAGIC. > > I use the a.out libraries from the slackware 3.0 distribution. I dont know > if there are newer versions out now. > > -Peter Ok, I have asked my friend about what version he can gen, when you guys tell me that's OK, I'll ask him to give me them. I think he prefers ELF himself, but he's not new at this, so I think he can generate what we ask for. I specified QMAGIC as you explained to me. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------