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Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 11:31:51 +0200
From: Meir Dukhan <mdukhan@bis.co.il>
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Hi, 

Quoted from the FreeBSD handbook:

> 
> 21.1. How to install the Linux emulator
> 
> Linux emulation in FreeBSD has reached a point where it is possible to run a large
> fraction of Linux binaries in both a.out and ELF format. The linux emulation in
> the -STABLE branch is capable of running Linux DOOM and Mathematica; the version
> present in FreeBSD-CURRENT is vastly more capable and runs all these as well as
> Quake, Abuse, IDL, netrek for Linux and a whole host of other programs.

Question: as I understand that a shared librairy is a kind of
executable, 
is it possible to "run", under freebsd 2.x.x, shared libs in
linux-elf/a.out 
format (e.g: Motif shared libs) ? Is one ever try it ?

Tia 

	Meir