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04-23-2008

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Originally Posted by uxlunatick

I would stay away from Caldera. They were the ones who purchased SCO and then went after the Linux users for copyright infringement.

Caldera's only an option due to it's supposed interoperability with SCO. UnitedLinux would be preferable, but still, there has to be other *nix flavors that support SCO's older applications.

The app's I have to run are no longer supported by their vendors. Their Windows versions costs more than the raises for all of our 150+ employees for the next year. . . Hence the reason I want to keep these apps alive.

I do have SCO 5.0.6, the apps, and XP running on the same machine in a dual-boot configuration. The apps, from 1992 and SCO from 94-96, are running on a HP DC5100 with 1gig ram and SATA drives.

I just want to be able to use a more modern version of *nix so the stability and ease of use would be there.

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brandelf

BRANDELF(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 					       BRANDELF(1)

NAME

     brandelf -- mark an ELF binary for a specific ABI

SYNOPSIS

     brandelf [-lv] [-f ELF_ABI_number] [-t string] file ...

DESCRIPTION

     The brandelf utility marks an ELF binary to be run under a certain ABI for FreeBSD.

     The options are as follows:

     -f ELF_ABI_number
	     Forces branding with the supplied ELF ABI number.	Incompatible with the -t option.  These values are assigned by SCO/USL.

     -l      Writes the list of all known ELF types to the standard error.

     -v      Turns on verbose output.

     -t string
	     Brands the given ELF binaries to be of the string ABI type.  Currently supported ABIs are ``FreeBSD'', ``Linux'', and ``SVR4''.

     file    If -t string is given it will brand file to be of type string, otherwise it will simply display the branding of file.

EXIT STATUS

     Exit status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command fails if a file does not exist, is too short, fails to brand properly, or the brand
     requested is not one of the known types and the -f option is not set.

EXAMPLES

     The following is an example of a typical usage of the brandelf command:

	   brandelf file
	   brandelf -t Linux file

SEE ALSO

     The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc., System V Application Binary Interface, http://www.sco.com/developer/devspecs/, April 29, 1998 (DRAFT).

HISTORY

     The brandelf manual page first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.

AUTHORS

     This manual page was written by John-Mark Gurney <jmg@FreeBSD.org>.

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