Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu libncurses5

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Author: Alex Dicks
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu libncurses5
On 2 Jun 2017 1:01 p.m., "Peter Alefounder via Hampshire" <
hampshire@???> wrote:

What isn't clear to me is why a 64 bit system didn't
immediately reject an attempt to run a 32 bit program.

I have a 32 bit Windows version of ne. It will not run on a 64
bit Windows system


Both Linux and Windows can run 32-bit binaries on a 64-bit system. However
neither can mix 64- and 32-bit shared libraries (aka DLLs) and executables
(neither way around works), so you have to resort to IPC.
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