Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!oz.cis.ohio-state.edu!jgreely From: jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Porting binaries Message-ID: Date: 30 Jul 89 14:49:35 GMT References: Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: J Greely Distribution: usa Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 26 In-reply-to: jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu's message of 29 Jul 89 14:29:07 GMT (first bald statement I make in weeks, and what happens? Someone corrects me. Thanks to John McCalpin for pointing out something I overlooked) >In article > mccalpin@masig2.ocean.fsu.edu (John D. McCalpin) writes: >>I have heard that it is possible to run sun3 binaries on the NeXT >>(at least under 0.9). [my partially correct response deleted] As John pointed out to me in e-mail, my previous answer isn't correct. Sun3 binaries no longer run directly, but they can be converted to Mach-O format using atom(1). Somehow, I've managed to overlook that one for the past three months. That's what I get for trusting the manuals :-). "Who's it *this* time?" "Concert promoters who have gone broke organizing charity benefit concerts. We call it Aid Aid." -=- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)