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Date:      Thu, 21 May 1998 10:27:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        "J.A. Terranson" <sysadmin@mfn.org>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "'George Yobst'" <george@lincc.lib.or.us>
Subject:   Re: Unixware Compatibility
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980521102627.22968F-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980521174620.E27201@freebie.lemis.com>

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netBSD has SVR4 compatibility..
someone looking for a project (any of you millions of 'questions' folks.)
could take it on.. could be very good experience..


On Thu, 21 May 1998, Greg Lehey wrote:

> On Thu, 21 May 1998 at  2:27:16 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote:
> >
> > <SNIP>
> > I've got an application that was written for SCO's Unixware 1.1 that
> > I want to run on FBSD.  I tried using 'brandelf' on 2.2.6, but...
> > <SNIP>
> >
> > SCO UnixWare 1.1 is actually SVR4.0.1,
> 
> In fact, it's Novell UnixWare, and it's SVR4.2.
> 
> > so you should probably try compiling a new kernel with SH* support
> > (see LINT) before deciding on anything radical...  No guarantees
> > (obviously), but unless your app is running something dependent on
> > the SVR4 asm code (like a COBOL or PASCAL P-system) you can probably
> > get it to work.
> 
> The problem here is the executables, which aren't recognized.  At the
> moment we have no support for SVR4.
> 
> Greg
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