From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 28 20:27:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from intrex.net (mail.intrex.net.192.42.209.in-addr.arpa [209.42.192.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68884157C9 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 20:26:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brownicm@prokyon.com) Received: from molly.localdomain [209.42.232.114] by intrex.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.01) id A2EB2AE10046; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:32:59 EDT Content-Length: 543 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:23:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Browning To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: aout vs. ELF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm just curious. It's not a problem. How about a brief or not-so-brief breakdown of the difference btw aout & ELF. Please don't be afraid of confusing me, it only drives my curiosity. Just how is a binary executable structured? No hurry. Recommending a good book or two is a more than acceptable answer. Thanks folks... ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Chris Browning 28-Apr-99 23:09:31 XFMail 1.3 on FreeBSD 3.1 "If you believe in Nothing... Honey, It believes in you." ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message