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+<!-- $Id: applications.sgml,v 1.1 1997-11-03 08:53:40 max Exp $ -->
+<!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
+
+  <sect>
+    <heading>User Applications<label id="applications"></heading>
+
+    <sect1>
+      <heading>So, where are all the user applications?</heading>
+
+      <p>Please take a look at <url url="http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ports/"
+      name="the ports page"> for info on software packages ported to
+      FreeBSD.  The list currently tops 1000 and is growing daily, so come
+      back to check often or subscribe to the <tt/freebsd-announce/
+      <ref id="mailing" name="mailing list"> for periodic updates on new
+      entries.
+
+      <p>Most ports should be available for both the 2.2 and 3.0
+      branches, and many of them should work on 2.1.x systems as
+      well.  Each time a FreeBSD release is made, a snapshot of the
+      ports tree at the time of release in also included in the
+      <tt>ports/</tt> directory.
+
+      <p>We also support the concept of a ``package'', essentially no
+      more than a gzipped binary distribution with a little extra
+      intelligence embedded in it for doing whatever custom installation
+      work is required.  A package can installed and uninstalled
+      again easily without having to know the gory details of which
+      files it includes.
+
+      <p>Use the package installation menu in <tt>/stand/sysinstall</tt>
+      (under the post-configuration menu item) or invoke the
+      <em>pkg_add(1)</em> command on the specific package files you're
+      interested in installing.  Package files can usually be identified by
+      their <em>.tgz</em> suffix and CDROM distribution people will have
+      a <tt>packages/All</tt> directory on their CD which contains such
+      files.  They can also be downloaded over the net for various versions
+      of FreeBSD at the following locations:
+
+      <descrip>
+        <tag>for 2.1.x-release</tag>
+        <url url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/packages-2.1.7/"
+        name="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/packages-2.1.7/">
+
+        <tag>for 2.2.5-release/2.2-stable</tag>
+        <url url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/packages-2.2.5/"
+        name="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/packages-2.2.5/">
+
+        <tag>for 3.0-current</tag>
+        <url url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/packages-3.0/"
+        name="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/packages-3.0/">
+      </descrip>
+
+      <p>or your nearest local mirror site.
+
+      <p>Note that all ports may not be available as packages since
+      new ones are constantly being added.  It is always a good
+      idea to check back periodically to see which packages are available
+      at the <url url="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/"
+      name="ftp.freebsd.org"> master site.
+
+    <sect1>
+      <heading>Where do I find libc.so.3.0?</heading>
+
+      <p>You are trying to run a package for 2.2/3.0 on a 2.1.x
+      system.  Please take a look at the previous section and get
+      the correct port/package for your system.
+
+    <sect1>
+      <heading>
+        ghostscript gives lots of errors with my 386/486SX.<label id="emul">
+      </heading>
+
+      <p>You don't have a math co-processor, right?
+      You will need to add the alternative math emulator to your kernel;
+      you do this by adding the following to your kernel config file
+      and it will be compiled in.
+
+      <verb>
+        options GPL_MATH_EMULATE
+      </verb>
+
+      <p><bf/NOTE/ You will need to remove the <tt/MATH&lowbar;EMULATE/
+      option when you do this.
+
+    <sect1>
+      <heading>
+        When I run a SCO/iBCS2 application, it bombs on <tt/socksys/.
+      </heading>
+
+      <p>You first need to edit the <tt>/etc/sysconfig</tt>
+      (or <htmlurl url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?rc.conf(5)"
+      name="/etc/rc.conf">) file in the last section to change the
+      following variable to <tt/YES/:
+
+      <verb>
+        # Set to YES if you want ibcs2 (SCO) emulation loaded at startup
+        ibcs2=NO
+      </verb>
+
+      <p>It will load the <htmlurl 
+      url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?ibcs2" name="ibcs2">
+      kernel module at startup.
+
+      <p>You'll then need to set up /compat/ibcs2/dev to look like:
+
+      <verb>
+lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel         9 Oct 15 22:20 X0R@ -> /dev/null
+lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel         7 Oct 15 22:20 nfsd@ -> socksys
+-rw-rw-r--  1 root  wheel         0 Oct 28 12:02 null
+lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel         9 Oct 15 22:20 socksys@ -> /dev/null
+crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   41,   1 Oct 15 22:14 spx
+      </verb>
+
+      <p>You just need socksys to go to <htmlurl 
+      url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?null(4)" name="/dev/null">
+      to fake the open &amp; close. The code in -current will handle the
+      rest.  This is much cleaner than the way it was done before.  If you
+      want the <tt/spx/ driver for a local socket X connection, define
+      <tt/SPX&lowbar;HACK/ when you compile the system.
+
+    <sect1>
+      <heading>
+        How do I configure INN (Internet News) for my machine?
+      </heading>
+
+      <p>After installing the inn package or port, an excelent place to
+      start is <url url="http://www.math.psu.edu/barr/INN.html"
+      name="Dave Barr's INN Page"> where you'll find the INN FAQ.
+
+  </sect>
+