Path: gmd.de!urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!uni-paderborn.de!aurel From: au...@dali.uni-paderborn.de (Aurel Balmosan) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development Subject: Using COFF-binaries on linux Date: 4 Mar 1994 13:42:25 GMT Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, Germany Lines: 12 Sender: aurel@dali (Aurel Balmosan) Distribution: world Message-ID: <2l7ds1$c7d@news.uni-paderborn.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: dali.uni-paderborn.de Keywords: coff,linux Hello, I want to run coff-binaries (from sco-unix) on my linux-system but the only answer from linux is segmention fault. I have seen (on tsx-11.mit.edu in the file ls-lR) that there are some ibcs2 and coff library which I could not get from any linux-ftp- server. Where can I get this libraries and tools ? -- Alexandru-Aurel Balmosan au...@uni-paderborn.de University of Paderborn (Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development Path: gmd.de!urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de! ina.zfn.uni-bremen.de!marvin.pc-labor.uni-bremen.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de! news.belwue.de!zib-berlin.de!netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net! howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!longyear From: longy...@netcom.com (Alfred Longyear) Subject: Re: Using COFF-binaries on linux Message-ID: <longyearCM5zxw.K7z@netcom.com> Keywords: coff,linux Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <2l7ds1$c7d@news.uni-paderborn.de> Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1994 23:58:43 GMT Lines: 24 au...@dali.uni-paderborn.de (Aurel Balmosan) writes: >Hello, >I want to run coff-binaries (from sco-unix) on my linux-system but the only answer >from linux is segmention fault. I have seen (on tsx-11.mit.edu in the file ls-lR) >that there are some ibcs2 and coff library which I could not get from any linux-ftp- >server. >Where can I get this libraries and tools ? To run COFF binaries, you need only the COFF loader. To run iBCS programs, you need the iBCS emulator. The iBCS emulator is being developed. If you wish the development version of the code, then please join the developer's mail list. Instructions for joining the mail list may be obtained by sending an email message to "linux-activists-requ...@niksula.hut.fi" with the text of "help". The channel for iBCS is called IBCS2. Being able to run COFF binaries is probably not going to get you very much additional functionality. It is the iBCS compatability that you are truely seeking. (I say this because just having the COFF loader is pretty usless in itself. It is like having the ELF loader. Only when they are taken in concert with the emulator do they become useful; at the present time, of course.)