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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Free binary for ksh93
Date: 12 Sep 1995 10:29:09 +0200
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G. Ioannou <gi101@cam.ac.uk> wrote:

>1) Is it possible to run 386BSD executables on FreeBSD?

386BSD executables do run.  I've incidentally ran a 386BSD 1.0 command
straight off the CD this morning.

I assume the ksh binary you've got is a BSD/OS 2 binary, which are
known to be incompatible (with no apparent and easy fix).
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)