From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 14 10:17:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA23156 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 10:17:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from bacall.lodgenet.com ([205.138.147.242]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA23149 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 10:17:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mail@localhost) by bacall.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA29765 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 12:12:33 -0600 Received: from tserv.lodgenet.com(204.124.120.10) by bacall via smap (V1.3) id sma029763; Thu Mar 14 12:12:20 1996 Received: from jake.lodgenet.com (jake.lodgenet.com [204.124.120.30]) by tserv.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA30423; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 11:26:13 -0600 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jake.lodgenet.com (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA07160; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 11:38:29 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199603141738.LAA07160@jake.lodgenet.com> X-Authentication-Warning: jake.lodgenet.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.2 7/18/95 To: Michael Smith cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ibcs2 and microsoft a.out's In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Mar 1996 10:35:29 +1030." <199603140005.KAA04762@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 11:38:28 -0600 From: "Eric L. Hernes" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Smith writes: > >> V2.3 V3.0 86 small model executable Large Text > >Errr. 'small model' means it's a 286 binary, not much chance of running >that I suspect. > without vm86 right? obviously SCO does it somehow. (oh, no... not this discussion again ;) ) >Do you have to use MASM? You can build a cross-gcc toolchain for i386-go32 >and build 386 DOS binaries with that; we do that here and it works just >fine. As a bonus your DOS executables get a 32-bit flat address space >and virtual memory 8) no, I don't have to. In fact I don't even have to make dos binaries. I was just testing the limits of ibcs2. I do have some code that needs masm, but I've also got plenty of SCO boxes that I can run masm on. I'll look into gcc as a cross though. >-- >]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ >]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ >]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ >]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ >]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ eric. -- erich@lodgenet.com erich@rrnet.com