Moving from SCO to Linux

[Brian K. White]

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 01:31:22PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 23, 2004, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>> ...
>>>> My major concern is migrating the filepro product itself.
>>>> Basically, will I be able to move the directory structure over,
>>>> and crank up the Linux version? Or is there lots of file
>>>> masssaging that has to be done (outside the normal ownership/perm
>>>> issues)?
>>>
>>> Naw; we migrate people all the time.  Filepro, qua filepro, moved
>>> just fine.  Your non-filepro menu program might give you trouble,
>>> if you have one; you have to be careful about scripting called
>>> *from* filepro menus (or .profiles), and you need to check for
>>> SYSTEM calls in your code.
>>
>> Are you referring to menumaestro?  Is that a SCO '286 a.out file or
>> will it run under linux-abi (nee iBCS)?
>
> MenuMaestro will indeed run under linux-abi (which isn't even the same
> code as linux-iBCS), but you need to tweak things a little bit.

Not so sweeping please.
Many people who have mm have xenix-286 binaries of it. They will _not_ work.
If you have a xenix-386 binary or later, they should work, and apparently
do, given your comment.

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