From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 8 20:34:01 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 561B7106566C for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2010 20:34:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emailrob@emailrob.com) Received: from mx01.dls.net (mx01.dls.net [216.145.245.197]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3949E8FC23 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2010 20:34:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [216.145.235.76] (helo=emailrob.com) by mx01.dls.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQQMt-00034J-21; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:12:04 -0600 Message-ID: <4CFFE698.5000900@emailrob.com> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:12:08 +0000 From: spellberg_robert User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: fbsd_questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [fbsd_questions] mac and windoze formats X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:34:01 -0000 howdy, folks --- this may be a stupid question, but, i figure that it is better to ask than to assume. premise: i was looking at a retail site that is offering a dvd_archive of every issue of a particular magazine back to its beginning, many decades ago [ these have become popular, lately ]. usually, i put these things on my windoze_box, until it was no longer new enough. then, i looked for linux [ aka, "elf" ] compatability, which also works. well, it has finally happened. something i want is only available for windoze and os_x. research: now, freebsd handles all sorts of elf; but, mac is not elf, it is derived from mach [ a long_unused word from my youth ]. so, this question is about "emulation". i found the section in the faq and in the handbook on elf, but, there is no mention of mac, osx, mach or anything else that is not elf, not even wine. i found a recent _questions post that suggested that there is no current ability to run a mach-o binary. because no one challenged this assertion, i take it as true. q: where do things stand regarding the future ability to run either a windoze or mac binary [ as these are the general_public's notion of a "computer" ] ? q: would the present situation be described as closer to " real_soon_now ! ", to " are you kidding ? " or to somewhere between these two endpoints ? happy everything, to everybody, all of the time, even to those who don't celebrate anything, at any time. rob