[H-GEN] Re: iBCS2

[Christopher Biggs]

Martin Pool <mbp at meesha.humbug.org.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> > Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 14:17:40 +1000 (GMT+1000)
> > From: Andrae Muys <A.Muys at mailbox.uq.edu.au>
> > To: Humbug Chat <chat at humbug.org.au>
> > Subject: [H-CHAT] Re: [H-GEN] iBCS2
> 
> To get back to the original point, the Progress CD says on the top
> that it wants 'Unix Version 4'.  (Does that make any sense to you,
> Chris?)

Well, do I understand that this is a product intended for "SCO Unix".

In that case, they probably mean "SCO UNIX REVISION 3.2 VERSION 4", or
as we call it, 3.2v4.   

Funnily enough, that version was called "Open Desktop 3", (or
OpenDeathTrap to it's friends).    The VERY NEXT version was called
"SCO Open Server 5".   They never HAD a product with a major version
number of 4.

Anyway, 32v4 is acually not a bad system, logically laid out, very
very stable and not particularly annoying once you've put bash and the
GNU fileutils up.   

The next release OSR5, went down the toilet.   Flaky as buggery and a
complete nightmare to maintain; all the "standard" unix directories
(/usr/bin /etc etc.) are just linkfarms into
/var/opt/some/huge/long/path.   Any program that exects to be able to
do "mv /etc/foobar /etc/foobar.old ; makeanew /etc/foobar" will
immediately break the linkfarm and fuck things right over.

SCO might finally ditch SVR3 and go to SVR4 (UnixWare in fact, which
they are now calling SVR5) some time in the next century.  Losers.

> The install program still seems to die somewhere in the C static
> runtime libraries initialization, so perhaps I have the wrong versions
> of the SCO libraries.

Hmmn, getting 32v4 binaries to run should be dead easy... Even largish
binaries such as WordPerfect 5.1 for SCO worked fine on Linux.   Not
many shared libraries to worry about because creating shared libs
under this OS is next to impossible.

Did you try "ldd" on the binary?  (Hmmn, does LDD work on COFF? dunno...)

Chris.

p.s. Shit I ramble on.  

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