Can I run Perkin Elmer software on SCO ? Post: 302371396

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Operating Systems SCO Can I run Perkin Elmer software on SCO ? Post 302371396 by TonyLawrence on Saturday 14th of November 2009 02:27:40 PM

11-14-2009

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Originally Posted by Neo

Ha! If that is the case, then Wiki says that SCO Open Desktop 2.0 is 3.2v4.1 1992.

So, can software for SCO 3.2v4.1 run on SCO OpenServer 5.0 3.2v5.0 1995 ? I assume it can.

Are these really the old 5" floppies? I can't understand the posts so well Smilie

Nor can we :-)

Most older SCO apps could transition to the 5.0.x versions. If there were obstacles, sometimes a little creative linking/ symlinking could resolve it, but in general, you have to need or want it very badly if it doesn't just pop up working. I can tell you that it would take a lot more than money to get me involved in anything like that today. In general, I strongly urge people toward Linux - and even (shudder) Windows if there is no other choice.

The stuff is just too hard to support. I fixed up an old SCO spreadsheet app to run on a 5.0.6 system some years back - for unexplained reasons it just stopped working last year. The people wanted me to fix it again - I just put my foot down and told them they had to move on because I wasn't going to mess with it again. They were not happy, but I was :-)

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I found Peerkins Elmer software running on SCO:

EVISA Instrument database: Perkin-Elmer Corp. - Optima 3000

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Operating Systems: SCO/UNIX ODT (multitasking & multiuser environment), MS-DOS, and Microsoft Windows.

So - he very well could have old SCO software. Again, could be xinstall, pkgadd or even just tar or cpio disks.

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mkfs.bfs

MKFS.BFS(8)                                                    System Administration                                                   MKFS.BFS(8)

NAME

       mkfs.bfs - make an SCO bfs filesystem

SYNOPSIS

       mkfs.bfs [options] device [block-count]

DESCRIPTION

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

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

OPTIONS

       -N, --inodes number
              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, --vname label
              Specify the volume label.  I have no idea if/where this is used.

       -F, --fname name
              Specify the filesystem name.  I have no idea if/where this is used.

       -v, --verbose
              Explain what is being done.

       -c     This option is silently ignored.

       -l     This option is silently ignored.

       -h, --help
              Display help text and exit.

       -V, --version
              Display version information and exit.  Option -V only works as --version when it is the only option.

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 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

util-linux                                                           July 2011                                                         MKFS.BFS(8)