Subject: Re: how reliable is ibcs2 and linux compatibility?
To: None <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: David Langford <langfod@maui.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/29/1995 19:20:34
>On Sat, 29 Apr 1995 01:58:17 -0500 
> Rob Windsor <windsor@punk.weru.ksu.edu> wrote:
>
> > > Well, I can run Doom under Linux emulation, and I can run the WordPerfect 
> > > 6.0 demo (on local display only) under ibcs2 emulation.  I've been 
> >             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Did you try setting your DISPLAY variable to the numeric (non-DNS'd) address
>
>Actually, this is becuase, the last time I checked, running X apps on a 
>non-local display requires additional glue that we don't have yet.
>
>Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov

Thisd is interesting. I had the exact opposite experience: the WP install
would not run on local display unless I had DISPLAY set to localhost.
It did work connecting to a Sun display also. WOnder if some of that
glue got entered into the recent changes.

Of course methionks the same glue broke emulation as the instlal fialed with an
Illegal Instruction error.

(No, I dont have a useful report- working on that.)

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