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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA6537 ; Sun, 10 Jan 93 17:19:31 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!yale!spock!lancelot From: lancelot@spock.uucp (Thor Lancelot Simon) Subject: Binary Compatibility (WAS Re: WordPerfect on 386BSD?) Message-ID: <1993Jan13.023431.14479@choate.edu> Keywords: wordperfect 386bsd compatibility Sender: usenet@choate.edu (Usenet posting daemon) Nntp-Posting-Host: rattle Organization: Choate Rosemary Hall References: <93010913477@erato.iowa-city.ia.us> <1993Jan9.214255.26478@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 02:34:31 GMT Lines: 22 In article <1993Jan9.214255.26478@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: >In article <93010913477@erato.iowa-city.ia.us> jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us (John D. Boggs) writes: >> >>I can't find anything in the FAQ about compatibility, so I'll offer up >>a question to the net at large. >> >>I want to be able to run WordPerfect on a unix box at home, and the good >>folks at WordPerfect Corporation have apparently never heard of 386BSD. >>So, is 386BSD binary compatible with the commercial flavor of Unix (what >>is that, system 5?) Has anyone got WordPerfect running on 386BSD? > >Nope, not yet; the only binaries that will run on 386BSD that were compiled >to run on another box are the Mach BNR2SS binaries. Unfortunately, the BSD/386 binaries won't run? Why not? -- ******************************************************************************* *Thor Simon * Okay, just a little pin-prick...There'll be no more-* *tls@panix.COM * Aieeeeaaaugh!-but you may feel a little _sick_. * *tls@spock.UUCP * ---Pink Floyd * *******************************************************************************