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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!Austria.EU.net!news.aut.alcatel.at!atusc75!ladavac From: ladavac@aut.alcatel.at (Marino Ladavac) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SCO binary compatible ? Date: 15 Sep 1995 12:25:48 GMT Organization: Alcatel Austria AG Lines: 20 Message-ID: <43brcc$861@atusks02.aut.alcatel.at> References: <Pine.A32.3.91.950915000801.2776B-100000@falco.ibama.gov.br> NNTP-Posting-Host: atusc75.aut.alcatel.at X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Bernardo Brummer (bernardo@ibama.gov.br) wrote: : I understood that Freebsd was now binary compatible with SCO, so I tried : an old Xenix pico 1.7 (worked OK with SCO 3.2.4.1) but it wouldn't work. : Is it a misunderstanding or is there some aditional step to be taken ? AFAIK, SCO compatibility should be okay for statically linked applications. Otherwise, some libraries will have been missing (SCO's libc comes to mind.) /Alby : Bernardo : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- : Bernardo Brummer phone: +55-61-316-1166 : bernardo@ibama.gov.br phone: +55-61-316-1163 : bernardo@direc.ibama.gov.br fax: +55-61-225-7517 : bernardo@itu.org.br : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------