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Mark Abene writes:
 > On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:42:22AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
 > > 
 > > Mark Abene writes:
 > >  > 
 > >  > Was this the latest 2.2-1 em86?  My rationale for getting it to work is for
 > >  > office productivity apps, such as WordPerfect and StarOffice.  We're in bad
 > >  > need of such a thing.
 > > 
 > > Applix at least seems to work..
 > 
 > Are you referring to Applix for Tru64, or is there an alphalinux Applix?

Is there an Applix for Tru64?  I was talking about the lunx/alpha
Applix.

<..>
 > I was using em86 on RedHat 6.0 with kernel 2.2.9 a while ago, and x86 apps
 > ran perfectly *except* for the fact that they couldn't create files, which
 > made them pretty useless.  I don't think anyone ever pursued this problem,

You can say that again ;-)

 > though it affected everyone (not just me).  I will say that the speed at
 > which WordPerfect ran under em86 was very impressive, even though I couldn't
 > save anything.  :)  So I still think em86 would be a worthy pursuit...

Do you know if the source is available?

BTW, when I run em86 both under emulation and on my rh6.2 test box, I
see: 

	BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: ../sysdeps/alpha/dl-machine.h:493: elf_machine_rela: Assertion `! "unexpected dynamic reloc type"' 

Not exacly confidence inspireing ;)

Can you point me at a version em86 that actually works under a modern
RH (6.1 or better) linux?

Thanks,

Drew


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