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From: y0001415@ws.rz.tu-bs.de (Martin Butkus)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI 2.x under FreeBSD??
Date: 23 Dec 1995 12:10:31 GMT
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The Lord Our Todd (tcurtiss@toledo.emi.net) wrote:
: Hello All,

: I was just wondering if there is a way to get BSDI 2.x binaries to run
: under FreeBSD. GCOMM has finally released their bbs for Unix but it
: doesn't come in a FreeBSD version. BSDI 2.0 or Linux yes, but no
: FreeBSD.:-( Can I get it to work?

I think they've changed the executable format at BSDI in an incompatible
fashion so that BSDI 2.x binaries don't work (haven't tried this myself - 
just hearsay). But maybe you can run the linux version with the linux
emulator?