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From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>
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To: cracauer@cons.org, dkelly@hiwaay.net
Subject: Re: LINUX emulation and uname(3).
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> 
> Shouldn't this be in -emulation?

 Probably should - I'm not subscribed to that; and don't keep track
with just what news groups there are...

> 
> > Add a program named "uname" to /compat/linux/bin or such that puts out
> > hardcoded strings of your choice.
> 
> For kicks today I decided to see if an IDL 5.0 demo would run under
> FreeBSD. It quickly quit, unable to ID the system to one it knew. Was
> still running startup shell scripts at the time.
> 
> I put ~/bin in the front of $path, and a uname shell script that simply
> said "echo Linux". Got IDL to run a little bit further. Said it thought
> I had pseudo 8 color when it really wanted TrueColor 16. Then it died.
> 
> Am not going to lose any sleep over it. Thought someone might be
> interested.
> 

 But - I'm talking about the uname() system call, not the uname
program... 

	- Dave R. -

> --
> David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net