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To: JC Jaros who wrote (32069)	5/18/2000 4:37:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

JC Right you are JC. FreeBSD has a compatibility mode (I believe that is what you are describing) for Linux that should run Linux binaries. I've tried tcl 7.6 that way on FreeBSD 2.2.6 along with a third party application & it didn't work. Haven't tried with FreeBSD 3.4, however. There are a number of improvements in 3.x, so it may work now. Most of the problems are with the c libs, so I can't see a performance problem with that especially regarding Linux & SunOS. Solaris may be a different story, though. That would be a more difficult binding. I've gotten used to re-compiling source from Solaris & Linux using Gnu & it works great. No performance problems at all & the makes mostly require different header files & conditional compiles, so it's not a real big deal.