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Guser

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Dec 19, 2002, 5:53:43 AM12/19/02
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we have just moved from our old SCO server to a new RedHat 8.0 based linux
system.
unfortunately one important SCO program which isn't available for linux
can't be run on under linux. any clues? i have heard about an ibcs emulator,
but it seems to be a dead project.


Anthony Lawrence

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Dec 19, 2002, 7:01:28 AM12/19/02
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No, it is not dead. It's just not ibcs2 anymore, it's linux-abi and
it's built in to RedHat and probably other current distros.

See http://www.pcunix.com/Linux/linuxabi.html

Also a search for "linux-abi" at http://www.pcunix.com/search.html will
turn up other related info.


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Roberto Zini

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Dec 19, 2002, 7:42:33 AM12/19/02
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Anthony Lawrence wrote:

> Guser wrote:
>
>> we have just moved from our old SCO server to a new RedHat 8.0 based
>> linux
>> system.
>> unfortunately one important SCO program which isn't available for linux
>> can't be run on under linux. any clues? i have heard about an ibcs
>> emulator,
>> but it seems to be a dead project.
>>
>
> No, it is not dead. It's just not ibcs2 anymore, it's linux-abi and
> it's built in to RedHat and probably other current distros.
>
> See http://www.pcunix.com/Linux/linuxabi.html
>
> Also a search for "linux-abi" at http://www.pcunix.com/search.html will
> turn up other related info.
>
>

SCO Linux (powered by United Linux) has it as well (not sure about the
name, but the above feature is definitely there).

Best,
Roberto
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Guser

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Dec 19, 2002, 7:52:26 PM12/19/02
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Ok, i'll check that.
Thanks Roberto, thanks Anthony!

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Greg M Lee

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Dec 19, 2002, 8:11:11 PM12/19/02
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linux-abi is the successor project. Very brief description of what
is and may also be required below.

To setup environment for SCO Openserver binaries as root run:
modprobe binfmt_coff
modprobe abi-sco

You may also have to do things like link terminfo directories and
libraries into places that your SCO binary expects them to be eg
ln -s /usr/share/terminfo /usr/lib/terminfo
or even copy some libraries from SCO to the linux machine and set
LD_LIBRARY_PATH and other environment variables before running
the program to point to their locations if put into different
directories from the "normal" SCO ones to avoid overwriting Linux
versions. If you get the impression from the above that static
linked binaries are easier to handle you are correct :-)

Cheers
-Greg

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