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From: shawnb@ecst.csuchico.edu (Shawn Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: Netscape and NetBSD/i386 1.0?
Date: 16 Jan 1995 21:19:37 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
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In article <J.GRINTER.95Jan16184249@orchard.cc.ic.ac.uk>,
James R Grinter <j.grinter@ic.ac.uk> wrote:
>In article <3fcgbc$jim@charnel.ecst.CSUChico.EDU> shawnb@ecst.csuchico.edu (Shawn Brown) writes:
>   Is there any way to run the Netscape binary for i386-unknown-bsd
>   under NetBSD 1.0? 
>
>Yes. Even the betas of the bsdi binary of Netscape worked under NetBSD 1.0.
>All you do is untar the file, and run the binary.
>
>Perhaps you'd better give some more info...

Hmm.  When I attempt to run this binary, I get:

mugwump# ./netscape
./netscape: Exec format error. Wrong Architecture.

This is with the netscape.i386-unknown-bsd.B10N.tar.Z file obtained directly
from ftp.mcom.com.

I get this same error when trying to run statically linked FreeBSD binaries
as well.  Do I need to include some compatibility option in my kernel config?

Shawn