[quoted lines by cbowman@netdoor.com on December 11, 2001, at 10:36] >I had heard that it is posable to run some unix >programs under linux I don't know if this is true, or not Strictly speaking, there's no such thing as Unix any more. Unix is the name of the original operating system, developed a couple of decades ago, which has become the template for all of the variants with which we're now familiar. There are many variatns, including: AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Irix, Linux, SCO, Solaris. It's really only correct to speak of an operating system as being Unix-like, in which case Linux is as much Unix-like as any of the other variants. If you have a binary (an already compiled program) for some particular Unix variant, it probably won't run on any of the others. If, howver, you have the source code, then, assuming the application already runs on one of the Unix variants, there's a high probability that it'll run on any of the others. Since no Unix variant is exactly like any of the others, however, you may need to make minor changes to the source code and/or the build process (usually a make file) in order to get it to work. >but, I had heard >that there is a unix version of eudora is there a version of this for linux, >or would the unix version work ok? has eanybody tried this? If there's a "Unix" version, and that's really the way it's being presented, then it's probably source code, and can undoubtedly be compiled and run on a Linux system. If it's just a binary, then whoever's referring to it as a Unix version doesn't really know what he's talking about as, rather, he should be stating which variant of Unix it's been compiled for. Again, Linux is as much a Unix-like system as any other system which is described as being Unix. -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | I believe that the Bible is the Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | Word of God. Please contact me EMail: dave@mielke.cc | Canada K2A 1H7 | if you're concerned about Hell.