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From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: Binaries from other 386-UNIX'es ??
References: <93Dec08.115841.4414@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE>
Organization: Brandon's Linux box and AmPR node, Mentor, OH
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1993 20:38:27 GMT
Message-ID: <1993Dec8.203827.22934@kf8nh.wariat.org>
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In article <93Dec08.115841.4414@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE>, nora@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE (Nora E. Etukudo) says:
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| Is  it  possible (now, or in nearest future) to run binaries  from  other
| unices, like ISC, SCO, ESIX on 386-BSD's and/or Linux ?
+---------------

[This is about the fourth or fifth time this week.  Somone PLEASE add this to
the FAQ!  Not that anyone will bother to read it, of course... :-( ]

I don't know what BSD is up to, but there is development under Linux for
support of COFF and ELF executables.  Neither is complete or ready for use
yet.

++Brandon
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