Re: Linux version

In article <miltwebbCxGEGp.9B3@netcom.com>, Milt Webb <miltwebb@netcom.com> wrote: >Mr. Pak Kai Wong (pkwong@hk.super.net) wrote: >: Hi, anyone aware that there is Linux version of Informix or how I can >: port to it? > >: Thanks and regards, Vincent Wong > >I have determined that Linux cannot run binaries created with other >Intel (386/486) versions of Unix like SCO, etc. Therefore, a version >of Informix for one of those will not run on Linux. IMHO Informix >probably is not planning a port to Linux. > Uhhh.... what version of Linux? If you have one of the new version with COFF support in the kernel it will work running a SCO version. I tried it, just to see, a while back and it worked but I can't say I did much with it other than load it, see if it ran, created the demo databases, mucked a bit then deleted the whole thing. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Kent Hamilton | Work: Kent.Hamilton@scscom.COM Senior Systems Administrator | SCS/Compute, Inc. | Play: KentH@HNS.St-Louis.Mo.US =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=