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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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- References: <93010913477@erato.iowa-city.ia.us> <1993Jan9.214255.26478@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 02:34:31 GMT
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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
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- BSD/386 binaries won't run? Why not?
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