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Operating Systems SCO Can I run Perkin Elmer software on SCO ? Post 302371386 by TonyLawrence on Saturday 14th of November 2009 01:50:33 PM

11-14-2009

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Originally Posted by Neo

Running SCO install commands on software that may not run on SCO is not very useful, so first we must find out if the user's Perkin Elmer Chemistry Analysis software can actually run on SCO.

For all we know, the user has Windows XP binaries on his floppy disks.
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Except that he implied that these came from a SCO 2 system.

It's also possible that this is old DOS stuff. SCO had a Dos emulation shell way back when, so they might have run under that.

Running xinstall or installpkg isn't going to try to install anything that isn't in the formats those installers expect, so it's harmless to try.

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mkfs.bfs

MKFS.BFS(8)						Linux System Administrator's Manual					       MKFS.BFS(8)

NAME

       mkfs.bfs - make an SCO bfs filesystem

SYNOPSIS

       mkfs.bfs [-N nr-of-inodes] [-V volume-name] [-F fsname] device [size-in-blocks]

DESCRIPTION

       mkfs.bfs creates an SCO bfs file-system on a block device (usually a disk partition or a file accessed via the loop device).

       The  size-in-blocks  parameter  is  the	desired size of the file system, in blocks.  If nothing is specified, the entire partition will be
       used.

OPTIONS

       -N     Specify the desired number of inodes (at most 512).  If nothing is specified some default number	in  the  range	48-512	is  picked
	      depending on the size of the partition.

       -V volume-label
	      Specify the volume label. I have no idea if/where this is used.

       -F fsname
	      Specify the fsname. I have no idea if/where this is used.

       -v     Be verbose.

EXIT CODES

       The exit code returned by mkfs.bfs is 0 when all went well, and 1 when something went wrong.

SEE ALSO

       mkfs(8).

AVAILABILITY

       The mkfs.bfs command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

Util-linux 2.9x 						   12 Sept 1999 						       MKFS.BFS(8)