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From: Robert Eckardt <roberte@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de>
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Subject: Re: Linux emulation problem
In-Reply-To: <337904B8.F8A@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> from "Pedro F. Giffuni" at "13. May. 97 17:18:00"
To: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co (Pedro F. Giffuni)
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 03:48:18 +0200 (MESZ)
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It was Pedro F. Giffuni who wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm using Fbsd 2.1.1, to try a program that never ran under 2.1.7.
> http://www.zib-berlin.de/Symbolik/reduce/
> Reduce is a math system design under LISP. REDUCE's distribution
> includes this lisp. 2.2.1's emulation is much better than previous
> versions but it still doesn't run the demo version REDUCE for Linux:
> 
> $ sh reduce
> Loading image file :./rdemo.img 
> file too short

May be you should try to dump a new image.
I'm running the Interactive Unix/SCO version under ibcs2 emulation
and it works (i.e. passes the test).


Loading image file: /usr/local/reduce3.5/reduce.img 
REDUCE 3.5, 15-Oct-93 ...

1: set_heap_size 4400000;
***** `set_heap_size' is an undefined function

2: 


(May be it's a bit old :-)  but they never got the memory management
 for SysV unix right for it was ported from the DOS version.)

> It's curious that no real error message is given by FreeBSD. Has anyone
> tried to run this?
> 
> TIA,
> 	--Pedro.

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