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From: pi@complx.LF.net (Kurt Jaeger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mathematica under FreeBSD?
Date: 24 May 1997 17:40:19 GMT
Organization: LF.net GmbH
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In article <5m1luj$eq9$1@gail.ripco.com>, Metameme 7 <vaccime@ripco.com> wrote:
>Does anyone have any experience with running Mathematica under
>FreeBSD?  The software is available in Linux ELF/a.out form;
>does the Linux emulation support suffice for this?

I tried it with a student license of mathematica 2.2 (or so) on a
2.2.1 BSD.

The binaries seemed to start, but then it ran into some ioctl that
was missing in the emulation.

Any other info on that would be interesting (I now have a 2.2.2 BSD
up, maybe i'll find the time to try that, too).

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