Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 21:41:25 +0200 (MET DST) From: sos@freebsd.org To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: green@arf.cs.sunyit.edu, hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dumb question about SCO compat Message-ID: <199608231941.VAA20905@ra.dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <199608231808.MAA07705@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Aug 23, 96 12:08:19 pm
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In reply to Nate Williams who wrote:
>
> > Quite awhile back I heard someone mention that at one point
> > they had a large subset of SCO running under the SCO (ibcs2) compat on
> > a FreeBSD system. I also believe that he was using the shared libs
> > scarfed off of a SCO system. (Finally to the question!) How possible
> > is that now if I were to order the SCO Free* OpenServer and used those
> > libs?
>
> It may have been Terry, but I've had some significant SCO applications
> running under emulation. I had to use SCO shlibs initially, but since
> it required SCO licenses for every application it made no sense, so I
> versions of the commercial software used which didn't use SCO shlibs.
I think it may have been me, when I did the original ibcs2 code
I had a complete SCO 3.2v2.0 system install chroot'ed, and
it workd just fine as a cross dev environment. things like ps
and such did of cause not work...
> > I'm curious as to how much that would help in attempting to run
> > something like SCO's oracle, word perfect, etc.
>
> That's the same reason I'm ordering it.
Me too :), lets see what theyve got, and se if there is something we
need to emulate :)
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