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From: lancelot@spock.uucp (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Subject: Binary Compatibility (WAS Re: WordPerfect on 386BSD?)
Message-ID: <1993Jan13.023431.14479@choate.edu>
Keywords: wordperfect 386bsd compatibility
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In article <1993Jan9.214255.26478@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>In article <93010913477@erato.iowa-city.ia.us> jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us (John D. Boggs) writes:
>>
>>I can't find anything in the FAQ about compatibility, so I'll offer up
>>a question to the net at large.
>>
>>I want to be able to run WordPerfect on a unix box at home, and the good
>>folks at WordPerfect Corporation have apparently never heard of 386BSD.
>>So, is 386BSD binary compatible with the commercial flavor of Unix (what
>>is that, system 5?)  Has anyone got WordPerfect running on 386BSD?
>
>Nope, not yet; the only binaries that will run on 386BSD that were compiled
>to run on another box are the Mach BNR2SS binaries.  Unfortunately, the

BSD/386 binaries won't run?  Why not?
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