Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 22:54:53 +0300 From: Ruslan Shevchenko <Ruslan@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA> To: sbabkin@dcn.att.com Cc: steve.shoecraft@microchip.com, julian@whistle.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oracle 7 on FreeBSD Message-ID: <35521182.2B5FFF48@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA> References: <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EEACDF0A@dcn71.dcn.att.com>
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sbabkin@dcn.att.com wrote:
> ? ? Steve Shoecraft wrote:
> ? ? Let me ask the question I have in another way:
> ? ?
> ? ? o Is it possible to convert the SCO object files (ELF?) to
> ? what
> ? ? FreeBSD uses natively (COFF?)?
> ? ?
> ? ? o If I can't convert the object files, can I link the object
> ? files
> ? ? together to make a binary?
> ?
> I already had this idea. I can tell you a saga about it :-)
> I wrote COFF (Oracle 7.1.6 for SCO was using
> COFF format) to BSD a.out converter and started implementation of
> SCO-compatible libraries. I took FreeBSD 2.0.5 libraries as base
> (because they are smaller and simpler than later) and started
> comparing man pages from SCO and FreeBSD. I have compared all the
> man pages and have converted about 1/3 of differences (the converted
> part included base packages like stdio and locale), when my
> experiments with SCSI I did at the same time led to a big disk crash.
> The COFF-?BSD converter was lost during it but the library sources
> have survived. It took lots of time to restore from this crash
> and many things have occurred since that but this work is still
> in the state when it was before crash. If somebody wants to
> continue it, I'm ready to provide the part I did and SCO man pages,
> grouped by compatibility. You will probably also need SCO
> to generate the test examples. I don't know whether SCO is still
> distributing their Open Desktop for nominal charge for personal
> use. That is the sad end of this saga :-(
>
I'm interesting in this, can you post/open www/ftpfor you library and
point to some docs about a.out/coff format ?
(P.S. Are you understand russian ? If yes, are you understand
koi8 ?)
> -Serge Babkin
> working as Oracle DBA now
>
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