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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!news.uiowa.edu!icaen!icaen.uiowa.edu!tletsche From: tletsche@icaen.uiowa.edu (Terry Lee Letsche) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: SCO packages and FreeBSD (Interbase) Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions Date: 20 Jul 1994 14:32:34 GMT Organization: University of Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network Lines: 33 Sender: justin@icaen.uiowa.edu (Justin Eltoft--User Consult) Distribution: world Message-ID: <30jci2$rhb@news.icaen.uiowa.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: d-is10.icaen.uiowa.edu Keywords: SCO package Free Interbase server I have a 486 box that needs to become an Interbase server (Interbase is a DB server from Borland/someone who might be buying it in the near future). Enclosed in the Paradox for Windows Developers Kit is a copy of the Interbase server for SCO Unix. So, I went out and bought SCO Unix, as well as the TCP/IP and NSF packages for it - roughly $2500-$3000. Interbase isntalled fine and appeared to work. I also needed a C compiler. No problem, I thought. This is Unix, right? Well, a C compiler from SCO costs about $1500 and comes bundled with some other developer stuff. Between the problems I had installing the OS in the first place, and how they wanted to charge me $125/call to get it installed and the hefty price of a C compiler, I quickly lost patience and switched over to FreeBSD 1.1 on the Walnut Creek CD-ROM, since I needed/wanted Unix on a PC-based workstation anyway. I'm unable to mount my SCO install disks under FreeBSD, which isn't too surprising. I had read somewhere that the executables between them were different, and I am looking for some confirmation on this. I believe the install packages for SCO are object-code, and that they need to be linked in with the system stuff. Does anyone out there have any knowledge on whether installing SCO packages is possible under FreeBSD, and if so, how? Please e-mail me at tletsche@icaen.uiowa.edu, and I will post a summary. Thanks. Terry