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Re: [seul-edu] Linux DTP

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Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Linux DTP
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:34:54 +0100
Cc: Dave Prentice <dprentice@uno.edu>
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wilson@visi.com said:
>  Not likely. Most apps are not binary compatible across the different
> flavors of *nix. For example, Solaris binaries won't run on Linux, AIX
> won't run on HPUX, etc. I believe some Unices have software that
> provides some binary compatibility, but I'm not sure which.

You can run SCO and (some) Solaris binaries on i386 Linux. You can run IRIX 
binaries on MIPS Linux. You can run DU binaries on Alpha Linux.

If there's a FrameMaker version for an i386 Unix variant, you may find that 
it's possible to get it to run.

--
dwmw2

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- Re: [seul-edu] Linux DTP
  - From: Timothy Wilson <wilson@visi.com>

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