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SCO emulation for Linux



ewww.  The IBCS and Linux-ABI stuff was allways flakey with SCO
software, I used to run foxpro for sco on linux, and it was extremely
broke.  I really doubt it works any better these days.

I do have media if you need it.

-miah

On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:29:16AM -0400, Bob Keyes wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am trying to run a program that doesn't have a Linux version, but does
> have a SCO OpenServer 5 version. I can't get either IBCS or Linux-ABI to
> compile correctly on debian (ABI doesn't have patches for kernels newer
> than 2.4.18. 2.4.18 w/ ABI patches fails compilation, web search shows
> this to be a GCC bug fixed in 3.3. But Linux < 2.4.20 won't compile on GCC
> 3.3...argh!).
> 
> So, if I have to switch distributions to get this working, what one will
> get a SCO Compatibility running by just adding a package?
> 
> tangentially, there are SCO licenses on ebay. Does anyone have media I
> could copy? Certainly, I am not going to give SCO any money ;)
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