From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 28 13:39:13 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA20726 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 13:39:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from isis.dynip.com ([139.141.222.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA20637 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 13:37:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@isis.dynip.com) From: root@isis.dynip.com Received: (from root@localhost) by isis.dynip.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id AAA13827 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 00:36:25 +0300 (AST) (envelope-from root) Message-Id: <199901282136.AAA13827@isis.dynip.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 00:35:12 +0300 (AST) Reply-To: root@isis.dynip.com Subject: Re: Did I hear someone say Communicator 4.5 for FreeBSD? To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <36AFD36C.456504C4@tci.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi guys, Like Greg said, FreeBSD is supporting aout binaries, but not for long. If you have an ELF system, that means, Kernel is ELF, All binaries of the system are ELF, and all newly compiled binaries, from ports, etc are going to be ELF, but for a limited period of time, if you have an old binary compiled when your system was aout, or if you got the binary in aout format, you will be able to run it without noticing any difference. A point here worths mentioning, if you have a choice, select the ELF binary, because SOON enough, FreeBSD will DUMP aout altogether, this will make the system tighter, faster, and causing less headaches to developers, but will be a period of CHAOS, when a specific binary stop working then you find out it was an aout one. Happy ELFing. -- - MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU. ~o .^. ---------------------------- ___ o~ .00 ) Static Email : osiris2002@yahoo.com /| o~ /)( Bouncing Email : root@isis.dynip.com / | | \ Web Site : http://isis.dynip.com:80 (Frames) ___/ | / \ Anon FTP Site : ftp://isis.dynip.com:21 (anonymous) | /''___/ / | Gopher Site : gopher://isis.dynip.com:70 | /'''/___/ | Network News : isis.dynip.com (Read, Post, Xfer) __|/'''/ Mailing Lists : majordomo@isis.dynip.com (public) pgp key : finger root@isis.dynip.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message