chuck ---
thank you.
your clarity is warmly appreciated.
fyi, would that these --were-- pdfs.
regrettably, these are not computer people;
they are print_the_magazine_on_paper_and_sell_the_paper people.
the usual approach is to install a binary on the box that, at the least,
requires the presence of the optical_disc in the drive to operate.
well, that's what happens when one charges money for something that is easily
duplicated.
their loss; i didn't include this item in today's order for some single_issues.
ciao.
rob
Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Dec 8, 2010, at 12:12 PM, spellberg_robert wrote:
premise:
i was looking at a retail site that is offering
a dvd_archive of every issue of a particular magazine back to its beginning,
many decades ago
[ these have become popular, lately ].
If the archive contains this magazine in a common format like PDF, you can view
such under nearly any platform (including FreeBSD).
usually, i put these things on my windoze_box, until it was no longer new
enough.
then, i looked for linux [ aka, "elf" ] compatability, which also works.
ELF is a binary file format. It's used by Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and other
platforms.
research:
now, freebsd handles all sorts of elf; but,
mac is not elf, it is derived from mach [ a long_unused word from my youth ].
Yes, MacOS X uses the Mach kernel from CMU, also used by NEXTSTEP. The binary
file format for the Mac is called MachO.
so, this question is about "emulation".
i found the section in the faq and in the handbook on elf, but,
there is no mention of mac, osx, mach or anything else that is not elf, not
even wine.
i found a recent _questions post that suggested that there is no current
ability to run a mach-o binary. because no one challenged this assertion, i
take it as true.
It is.
q: where do things stand regarding
the future ability to run either a windoze or mac binary
[ as these are the general_public's notion of a "computer" ] ?
You can use emulation software like VMWare 3 to run a Windows environment under
FreeBSD; however, that won't let you run MacOS X or Mac programs.
Regards,
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