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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!gatech!newsjunkie.ans.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!tandem!zorch!zorch.sf-bay.org!scott From: scott@zorch.sf-bay.org (Scott Hazen Mueller) Subject: found it (was Re: where is Linux emulator?) Reply-To: scott@zorch.sf-bay.org Sender: usenet@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Charlie Root) Organization: At Home; Salida, CA Message-ID: <DHHLyM.LE@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> References: <DHF7vK.MpA@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <47bm8b$m0t@dracula.hybrid.com> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: localhost.sf-bay.org Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 21:49:34 GMT Lines: 18 I found the emulator, it's in packages/xperimnt (or some such). It needs 2.1 to run, a minor factor that I missed, and the application I want to try appears to be linked against a more recent X version than is in the emulator. Well, I'll keep plugging away at it. >No wait a second. why would anyone make an emulator of a piece of software >which is really an emulation of another piece of software (i.e. Unix). >Break down and buy a cheap PC and get a copy of linux and be done with it. I bought a cheap PC, a mere $2K over time. That's what I run FreeBSD on. I don't see room here in my home office for yet another PC. Maybe I'll run Linux on my wife's PC at some point, but not until Wine is good enough to run her Windows apps. In the meantime, dedicating a PC to Linux to run one application is out of the question. -- Scott Hazen Mueller | scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG or tandem!zorch!scott