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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!uunet.ca!uunet.ca!fw.novatel.ca!sidney.novatel.ca!hpeyerl From: hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: Will BSD run BIN files from other OP sys. Date: 11 Jul 1994 05:10:34 GMT Organization: NovAtel Communications Ltd. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <2vqk8a$lg0@fw.novatel.ca> References: <2vf01r$ffn@herald.indirect.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sidney.novatel.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Data Cal Corp. (datacal@indirect.com) wrote: : I would like to know if I can take a bin from a SCO box and have it run : on BSD? I thought that I had seen this somewhere. Just mainly out of : couriosity. This is currently under construction in NetBSD. The flexible exec module allows additional executable types to be added in with relative ease (with the hard part being the emulation itself). This is how things like SunOS, and Ultrix emulation can work. Currently; iBCS2 support can run simple statically linked things like 'hello world'. Please remember this is under construction. I'm not involved in the work myself so I can't give you a timeline as to estimated completion time. -- hpeyerl@novatel.ca | NovAtel Commnications Ltd. hpeyerl@fsa.ca | <nothing I say matters anyway> "A sucking chest wound is nature's way of telling you to slow down."