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Subject: SCO binaries under Linux?
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From: rwy...@tlc.alcm.org (Richard J. Wyble)
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Subject says it -- SCO binaries run under Linux? Specifically, will
WordPerfect 5.1, either character-mode version or the X version, run?
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In <1994May2.204741.6...@tlc.alcm.org>, rwy...@tlc.alcm.org 
(Richard J. Wyble) writes:
>
>Subject says it -- SCO binaries run under Linux? Specifically, will
>WordPerfect 5.1, either character-mode version or the X version, run?
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I am also interested in knowing what Linux will and won't run.
Thanks!

-Glenn



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* In message <1994May2.204741.6...@tlc.alcm.org>, Richard J. Wyble said:

RW> Subject says it -- SCO binaries run under Linux? Specifically, will
RW> WordPerfect 5.1, either character-mode version or the X
RW> version, run?

Well, that's the version I used in developing the iBCS emulator. It's a long 
time since it managed to give me a surprise in either text or X mode.

  You need to look on tsx-11.mit.edu under pub/linux/ALPHA/ibcs2 and perhaps 
join the IBCS2 mailing list on linux-activi...@niksula.hut.fi.

                                Mike  

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* In message <2q5q1n$...@news.roadnet.ups.com>,
  gl...@gandalf.rutgers.edu said:

gg> >Subject says it -- SCO binaries run under Linux? Specifically, will
gg> >WordPerfect 5.1, either character-mode version or the X version, run?

gg> I am also interested in knowing what Linux will and won't
gg> run.

So get the latest version of the iBCS emulator from tsx-11, read the COMPAT 
file, the README file, the HINTS file, anything else readable and *try* 
things. Only by conquering your own apathy will you progress from here...

                                Mike  

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gl...@gandalf.rutgers.edu meinte am 03.05.94
zum Thema "Re: SCO binaries under Linux?":

> In <1994May2.204741.6...@tlc.alcm.org>, rwy...@tlc.alcm.org (Richard J.
> >Wyble) writes:
> >Subject says it -- SCO binaries run under Linux? Specifically, will
> >WordPerfect 5.1, either character-mode version or the X version, run?
> >--
>
> I am also interested in knowing what Linux will and won't run.
> Thanks!
>

Sorry, not yet. I've tested some programs and none of them were running  
:-(( , except of scripts :-)


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From: iii...@uk.ac.swan.pyr (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: SCO binaries under Linux?
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In article <5OO6Bfd6...@mikel.rhein-neckar.de> mi...@mikel.rhein-neckar.de 
(Michael Weidner) writes:
>gl...@gandalf.rutgers.edu meinte am 03.05.94
>zum Thema "Re: SCO binaries under Linux?":
>
>> In <1994May2.204741.6...@tlc.alcm.org>, rwy...@tlc.alcm.org (Richard J.
>> >Wyble) writes:
>> >Subject says it -- SCO binaries run under Linux? Specifically, will
>> >WordPerfect 5.1, either character-mode version or the X version, run?
>> >--
>>
>> I am also interested in knowing what Linux will and won't run.
>> Thanks!
>>
>
>Sorry, not yet. I've tested some programs and none of them were running  
>:-(( , except of scripts :-)

You need the iBCS2 patches to run IBCS (ie SCO /ISC etc code). With these
I found 95% of things went fine and 5% went splot - but that was a while ago.

Alan