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From: thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (Thomas Gellekum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Question about running BSDI binaries
Date: 6 Jun 1995 09:46:54 GMT
Organization: Inst. f. Hochfrequenztechnik
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Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@violet.berkeley.edu) wrote:
> In article <RJK.95Jun2090032@sparcmill.grauel.com>,
> Richard J Kuhns <rjk@sparcmill.grauel.com> wrote:
> >Under the impression that FreeBSD could run any statically-linked BSDI
> >binary, I ordered a commercial package which had been ported to BSDI.
> >Trying to install it on a machine running 2.0RELEASE, I got the following
> >results:

> This is very interesting!  We were also under the impression that FreeBSD
> could run any statically-linked BSDI binary! :-)

Seeing this, I would like to know if anyone has experience with
Maple V for BSD/386 V1.1. This seems to be the only *BSD version
Maplesoft has to offer.

tg