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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!newsfeeder.sdsu.edu!newspump.sol.net!news.mindspring.com!usenet From: Ron Bolin <rlb@mindspring.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Running SCO binaries Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 20:31:34 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Lines: 32 Message-ID: <31F6C066.794BDF32@mindspring.com> References: <4t68qa$5ku@ocean.silcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: user-168-121-25-139.dialup.mindspring.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) To: Clarence Gardner <clarence@silcom.com> Clarence Gardner wrote: > > I'm trying to run a commercial program (ICVerify). I got the SCO > version, but when I run it, it's not being executed. It looks like > the shell is trying to interpret it -- i'm getting a "syntax error > on line 12". > I've rebuilt my kernel with 'OPTION COMPAT_IBCS2' and set the > ibcs2=YES in /etc/sysconfig. modstat shows ibcs2_mod and ibcs2_coff_mod > loaded. (it actually showed that before i rebuilt the kernel too). > According to the 'file' command, the sco programs i have are > Microsoft a.out files. Is this correct? Is there perhaps more than > one executable format on sco, and freebsd only supports some? > > TIA for any pointers. By the way, I'd also be interested in hearing > from anyone who would be interested in a native version of ICVerify. > You may have a problem here. As I recall, the SCO compiler can target the output to several formats. One being Microsoft a.out, which runs under DOS (I believe) or else there own runtime env. A good SCO binary should say "i386 COFF executable". Ron -- **************************************************************************** Ron Bolin: rlb@mindspring.com,matrlbx@indigo4.cs.gsu.edu * Home: 770-992-8877 UNIX System Specialist * ****************************************************************************