Moving from SCO to Linux

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Only Jay Ashworth would say something like:
> > that's interesting, I could've sworn there used to be a machine room
> > there, instead of a mushroom cloud..." ?
> 
> I don't think we'd call *that* quirky.  :-)

That's -normal-?!  :)

> AIX had *better* be more bullet proof.  From what I've been told by
> IBMers, it's basically a POSIX skin over VM/MVS.

This explains much.  :-/

> FWIW, you might be able to port a SCO runtime to Linux; fp% seems to
> run ok in the version of Linux-abi shipped with (but not enabled by
> default in) SuSE Pro 9.0.

Erm.  Did you try changing a file map with ddefine, or expanding a file?
Does it work without setting PFNODF=ON?  The old iBCS module never fixed
the statfs() differences, so you had to make sure you were okay on disk
space manually and set that variable.

> One possible problem: you need to make sure you build your users in teh
> password file with the same UID numbers as on SCO, or your @CD's will
> break. 

That's true between any platforms...not just SCO -> linux.  It's true from
.* -> .* in general.

mark->
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