From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 29 13:29:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04C2216A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:29:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from iwmail.xpdial.com (iwgate.xpdial.com [68.156.89.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F0B543FDF for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:29:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@s-wit.net) Received: from [192.168.101.251] by iwmail.xpdial.com (ArGoSoft Mail Server Pro for WinNT/2000/XP, Version 1.8 (1.8.4.1)); Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:33:03 -0500 Message-ID: <000e01c39e64$4727ba50$fb65a8c0@ocfl061> From: "M.D. DeWar" To: "freebsd-questions" References: <002a01c39cb4$11062e90$0501a8c0@canada> <000a01c39da0$0cdb1b40$fb65a8c0@ocfl061> <3F9EE982.5040001@magidesign.com> <000a01c39da1$bb981e70$fb65a8c0@ocfl061> <3F9EF09F.3070800@mindcore.net> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:33:19 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: why is it known as unknown X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:29:50 -0000 for curiosity and exciting dinner banter, why is it I see programs/application etc referring to FreeBSD as i386-unknown-freebsd4.8 system or when doing a configure it shows as that ? thanks curious cat