From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 31 02:33:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA22581 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 02:33:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sun4nl.NL.net (sun4nl.NL.net [193.78.240.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA22568 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 02:33:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp01.oce.nl by sun4nl.NL.net (5.65b/NLnet-3.4) id AA16851; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 11:33:33 +0200 Received: by smtp01.oce.nl (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA10504; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 11:34:34 +0200 >Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3255 invoked from network); 31 Jul 1997 09:27:30 -0000 Received: from st1-jos.oce.nl (134.188.60.60) by ns-venlo.oce.nl with SMTP; 31 Jul 1997 09:27:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 6960 invoked by uid 911); 31 Jul 1997 09:33:11 -0000 Message-Id: <19970731093311.6959.qmail@st1-jos.oce.nl> To: "Brian Bennett" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portable software In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Jul 1997 20:17:10 GMT." Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 11:33:11 +0200 From: Jos Backus Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello Brian, In message you wrote: >can I use software written for SCO, BSDI, or another type of UNIX system with >FreeBSD? I'm particularly intrested in SCO I have been looking into running the Progress 4GL-RDBMS under the iBCS2 emulator that comes with FreeBSD, and it seems to work. All I had to do is enable the emulation and the SysV IPC stuff in the kernel and put the SCO /shlib shared libraries in /compat/ibcs2/shlib. Progress is a _big_ application that thoroughly stresses the OS/emulation. If that runs I suspect many others will do as well. Hope this helps, Jos -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ CIM-ISGA/IS _/ _/ _/ Oce-Technologies B.V. _/ _/_/_/ Venlo, The Netherlands _/ _/ _/ _/ jos@oce.nl _/_/ _/_/_/ #include