From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 10 08:37:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA22392 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 08:37:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA21378; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 08:31:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from giffunip@asme.org) Received: from giffuni.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.49]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.0) with SMTP id AAA28015; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 10:50:37 +0500 Message-ID: <35055FE4.41C67EA6@asme.org> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 10:44:36 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: U. Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Sean J. Schluntz" CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WABI for Linux and FreeBSD. RPM Packages? References: <350434A8.8C289C3E@clicknet.com> <350453D5.167EB0E7@asme.org> <3504640C.BF5DA405@clicknet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sean J. Schluntz wrote: > > Do we know what is missing in our emulation? Perhaps this is something > I can take a shot at. No I have not tried running wine, I need to look > through the man pages on that but had not luck even getting notepad.exe > to run under it. I don't have Willows. > USER_LDT I mentioned wine and Willows because they both use it: If you can run them (emulated I mean) there is a chance WABI may run. There wer also some procfs issues, but I don't know if that was solved. > > No big deal, in any case WABI won't run win32 stuff. > > I know it does not run win32, that's not what I need. There are two > things I wan to run under it, the 16 bit WinNT domain utilities and > Stars! the game (I know, I know, but it's a great game we are playing > here at the office) > Wine ran (more or less) M$-word and Excel plus some other games last time I tried it. I had win 3.1 installed on a different partition. Willows is said to be better (it doesn't require win), but it hasn't been ported to any BSD. good luck, Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message