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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: executing bsdi files under FreeBSD 2.1.0 Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 22:19:41 -0700 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 26 Message-ID: <31EB266D.40FF@www.play-hookey.com> References: <31EA3A35.2781E494@aristar.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Matthew A. Gessner wrote: > > I thought I read somewhere that this can be done, but I can't find any > references on how to do it. > > There are a couple of programs written for netbsd or bsdi (like Mosaic) > that I'd like to run, but when I get them they report the binaries > aren't executable. > > I thought the binaries were in some way compatible. > > Can anyone shed some light on this for me? > One ray of light: Netscape for BSDI runs fine on FreeBSD (I run it). Only one requirement -- at least some versions of Netscape want the Xwindows directory to be called X11 rather than X11R6. It works if you put in the appropriate symlink. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |