Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 19:49:26 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com> To: dkelly@hiwaay.net Cc: freebsd-emulation@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: LINUX emulation and uname(3). Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.971009194701.19988A-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com> In-Reply-To: <199710100210.VAA13256@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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>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. Aye, yes. It's necessary to hunt though the various scripts and replace "Linux" with "Linux"|"FreeBSD". (Or variations on this theme.) >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. This is a whole different problem. 16-bit color gives IDL serious indigestion. This is why I spent the bucks for the Xig server, IDL does reasonably OK with 24-bit color. (I use IDL all the time on my FreeBSD box.) Brian
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