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From: rjk@sparcmill.grauel.com (Richard J Kuhns)
Subject: Re: BSDI bins (exec?)
In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of 20 Jul 1995 04:22:07 GMT
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Date: 21 Jul 1995 14:08:36 GMT
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In article <3ukllf$d2@park.uvsc.edu> Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> writes:

>   pascal@ramoth.xs4all.nl (Pascal van Dam) wrote:
>   ]
>   ] Is it possible to run BSDI bins with FreeBSD?
>
>   Yes.

Make that ``Yes, as long as it's a pre-version-2.0 BSDI binary''.
Version 2.0 binaries (currently) seg fault in start().

>   ] I want to be a test-driver for the netscape commerce server but
>   ] it only supports the BSDI format.
>
>   It is known to run in -current (ie: with the "uname" patch).
>
>					   Terry Lambert
>					   terry@cs.weber.edu

I'm not familiar with the netscape commerce server, but if it's currently
under development && they should switch to developing under BSDI v2.0,
there'll be problems trying to run it under FreeBSD 2.0*.
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