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From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Freebsd binaries on BSD?
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 17:23:16 -0700
Organization: Whistle Communications
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> Somebody's trying to tell me that it is all possible to
> run Freebsd binaries on BSDI 2.1. Is this possible?
> If so, how?

Well FreeBSD can run BSDI binaries, as they have tried hard to keep
the kernel interface compaitble.
If they succeeded, then yes it sould work..
(if you have the shared libraries loaded too:) (or compile static)

julian