Moving from SCO to Linux

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 04:40:10PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> 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-?!  :)

No, but even *I'm* not as prone to understatement as "quirky".

> > 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.

Dunno; will check.

> > 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.

Yeah, I know.  Which means it's something he was asking about, right?

Cheers,
-- jra
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