UNIX binary compatibility

[Tom Neff]

In article <15169 at netcom.UUCP> jim at netcom.UUCP (Jim Nelson) writes:
>Are Interactive Unix 386/ix 2.0.2 and AT&T System V/386 Release
>3.2.2 binary compatible?  I would like to run X-windows binary
>(compiled on Interactive using GCC 1.37.1) on a 386 running
>AT&T Release 3.2.2.  If not, does anyone know where I can get
>the X-window binaries for AT&T Unix?  Any suggestions would
>be very helpfull.

Interactive and AT&T are highly binary compatible however any program
which makes use of ISC's various bits of wondrous value adding -- extra
ioctl's etc -- may bomb on vanilla AT&T.  X is pretty complicated.  I
would try to build it on the target OS just as a matter of principle.


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