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Date:      Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:35:40 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "gspriet1@home.com" <spriet@gti.cc>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Compatibility with applications made under SCO ?
Message-ID:  <20010129213540.B39756@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <03f601c08a31$fc748860$0400a8c0@wido1.on.home.com>; from gspriet1@home.com on Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:28:02PM %2B0100
References:  <03f601c08a31$fc748860$0400a8c0@wido1.on.home.com>

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On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:28:02PM +0100, gspriet1@home.com wrote:
> Hi,    
> I have applications running with SCO Open Server
> using the Microsoft Cobol Compiler (1990)
> My company maintain more that 16,000 users with this application program !
> will they run on FreeBSD,
> Is there anything special to do to make SCO Unix based programs work,
> Do I need a kind of emulator or do I need to change something in the programs ?

I believe FreeBSD has a binary compatability layer for SCO binaries -
you can enable it in /etc/rc.conf.

ibcs2_enable="NO"       # Ibcs2 (SCO) emulation loaded at startup (or NO).

I've never used it myself.

Kris

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