Well, I'm running pre8 (and everything else back to 1.2) under
solaris 2.2 and (currently) 2.3 just fine. It will blather quite a bit
on startup if your system doesn't match the ones at NCSA, but that can
all be safely ignored. Good luck!
Jim
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