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- Path: sparky!uunet!pacsoft!mike
- From: mike@pacsoft.com (Mike Stefanik)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
- Subject: Re: Sco Xenix or Unix - which to program for?
- Message-ID: <1361@pacsoft.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 09:12:26 GMT
- References: <1992Aug24.202843.5696@primerd.prime.com> <id.XAOS.C53@ferranti.com>
- Organization: Pacific Software Group, Riverside, Ca.
- Lines: 19
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- In article, peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
- >[...] That is, a SCO Xenix program will run on SCO UNIX, but not vice-versa.
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- Hold on a second here -- XENIX can load and run COFF executables. Naturally
- it will choke if the program does intrinsically non-portable stuff (such as
- nlist() or mucking about with luid's... but that's the case regardless if
- you are running a XENIX executable under UNIX or vice versa.)
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- Mike Stefanik mike@pacsoft.com ...!uunet!pacsoft!mike
- Pacific Software Group, Riverside, CA
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