SCO binary compatibilkity

Lance E. Lott lancelot at at-vantage.com
Wed Jan 7 11:28:35 PST 2004


Actually, the FoxPro 2.6 I have runs fine under SCO Openserver 5.x and 
FreeBSD 4.x.

I have it running on about 50 sites nationwide...

Lance

At 01:08 PM 1/7/2004, you wrote:

>In the last episode (Jan 07), Lance E. Lott said:
> > Since about version 2.2.7.  :)
> >
> > Seriously... I had SCO's FoxPro 2.6 running on as early as version
> > 2.2.7. at that time it was a bitch, but since about 4.0 came out,
> > it's been easier and easier.
> >
> > I have now been running SCO's FoxPro 2.6 on FreeBSD 4.0 - 4.9 without
> > problems.
> >
> > All you have to do to turn on SCO's compatibility is to include the
> > line
> >
> > ibcs2_enable="YES" in your /etc/rc.conf line and either reboot, or type:
> > kldload ibcs2.ko
> > kldload ibcs2_coff.ko
>
>Note that this is the older 3.2v4.2 compatibility, not Openserver 5.x.
>Most SCO software people want to use is 3.2v4.2, but check just to be
>sure.  We ran MicroFocus Cobol under emulation for years with no
>problems.
>
>--
>         Dan Nelson
>         dnelson at allantgroup.com
>
>
>
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