I meant the "include" files James was talking about - they may be the same but the system calls are different. Of course they are hidden by the API. But you need standard libraries (e.g. stdlib) for even the most basic apps so they won't work. François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote on 22.02.02 00:20:05: > >Most of the syscalls are handled by the libs >(even simple things like fork() are simple wrappers functions in the standard >library) Well, this is in the case the system is cleanly designed :^) > > >En réponse à Michael Noisternig <michael.noisternig@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> It won't work because all the system calls are different from Linux to >> BeOS. It's not only a matter of libraries. >>