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- From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Binary Compatibility (WAS Re: WordPerfect on 386BSD?)
- Keywords: wordperfect 386bsd compatibility
- Message-ID: <1993Jan13.051313.29043@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Date: 13 Jan 93 05:13:13 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan13.023431.14479@choate.edu> lancelot@spock.uucp (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes:
- >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?
-
- 1) WordPerfect isn't ported to BSD/386.
-
- 2) It's the 12th. On the 15th, the Judge will rule on BSDi's response
- to AT&T's request for an injunction on sales. The outcome will
- probably effect the likelihood of a port.
-
- 3) The console driver incompatabilities are true of a BSD/386 to
- 386/BSD compatability for WordPerfect, which over-does the console
- code to look as much as possible like you are on a PC.
-
- 4) The BSD/386 being sold is still beta and thus does not qualify as
- a commercial UNIX (hopefully this will be corrected soon).
-
-
- Terry Lambert
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
- terry_lambert@novell.com
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