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Date:      Sun, 09 Nov 1997 13:11:59 -0800
From:      Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
To:        njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: a.out format 
Message-ID:  <199711092112.NAA17325@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>

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On Sat, 8 Nov 1997 22:55:27 +0000 
 njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart) wrote:

 > Don't suppose anyone knows how the "a.out" format got its name?

"assembler output" as I recall...

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