Subject: Re: SunOS emulation
To: Eric W. Bates <ericx@vineyard.net>
From: Simon Walton <simonw@CS.UCLA.EDU>
List: port-sparc
Date: 12/22/1997 11:17:42
> The SunOS emulation works quite well.
> 
> However, Adobe's Acrobat Reader (I'm in the process of installing
> FrameMaker; so I expect the same problem will crop up) and it refuses
> to run the SunOS version because it doesn't recognize the current OS.
> 
> # bin/acroread
> The OS named NetBSD version 1.3_BETA is currently not installed.
> Try running on a installed platform and connecting to your display.
> Installed platform(s) include the following:
>   SPARC/SunOS version 4.1.3 or 4.1.4
> [Exit 1 ]
> 
> 
> How do I fool it?  It is not reading the ENV var OSTYPE.

   This top-level program is just a shell script. Hack it so
that it thinks NetBSD is the same as SunOS 4. I run acrobat
successfully on NetBSD.

Simon