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From: duc@mport.COM (Richard Ducoty)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Loading Microport executables on SCO Unix
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Date: 2 Nov 90 20:08:02 GMT
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ken@dali.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) writes:

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>Okay...so I want to try out this much vaunted binary compatability.

>I have (legal and everything) the Document Processing distribution for
>Microport SysV/386.  Since SCO-ODT didn't come with this, I figured
>I'd just load up these binaries and everything would be rockin'.

>Now...could someone fill me in on what the format of the microport
>distribution disks are (how are the archives laid out, etc.)?
>Thanks...
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They're in a cpio format I believe.  I tried what you're talking about
and it seemed to work fine - as far as I checked it out (not very far).
I'm running release 4 now, so I can't tell you any more about it.
There might be an installation shell script on the disk which would
be a help.


			Richard Ducoty