Re: Finally found one! (Was:Architecture-specific example files)
Edward Betts <edward@debian.org> writes:
> Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@fig.org> wrote:
> > Do you have any tangible examples of an architecture-specific example
> > file? Maybe I haven't been following this thread closely enough,
> > because I've only seen discussion of ``what-if'' scenarios.
>
> $ ls -l /usr/doc/samba-doc/examples/examples/validchars/
> total 20
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3559 Aug 13 1996 msdos70.out
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3801 Aug 13 1996 nwdos70.out
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1999 Aug 13 1996 readme.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2648 Aug 13 1996 validchr.c
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6357 Nov 23 1998 validchr.com.gz
> $
>
> LOOK! I FOUND ONE.
>
> After much hunting I have hit on a Architecture-specific example files, the
> odd thing is that although it is i386 specific, it will not run on Linux
> without the aid of dosemu, because it is a DOS program.
>
> Would this be allowed in /usr/share? It is an arch specific file, but not
> strictly to any Linux architecture. A bit like a JPEG, but not really at all
> like a JPEG file.
It would run with em86 or other i386 emulator. Even bochs is a
posibility.
On non-i386 systems the dependencies must be different for the
package.
May the Source be with you.
Goswin
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