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Subject: BSD SunOS binary compatability
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From: ktw@tcsi.sol.net (K.T. Wieringa)
Message-ID: <ktw.14a5@tcsi.sol.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 95 14:17:25 CST
Organization: A Demon of the Second Kind
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Just how compatible is BSD with SunOS binaries with the COMPAT_SUNOS kernel
flag?
I'd like to run ARC/View. This package is available for SunOS and
MS-Windows, among other platforms, but not BSD. The options I have are to
run the SunOS binary under BSD or to buy and install MS-Windows just to use
this one application.
I've worked awful hard at not contributing a single dime to the MS balance
sheet over the years. Someone please tell me that {Free|Net}BSD can handle
a SunOS binary for a large, complex application like Arc/View.
-todd