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From: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Today is E-day
In-Reply-To: <199808310148.LAA16829@cimlogic.com.au> from John Birrell at "Aug 31, 98 11:48:57 am"
To: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:51:34 +0200 (CEST)
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According to John Birrell:
> Drum roll ....
> 
> CLICK!
> 
> That's the sound that the big elf switch makes when it's thrown. Not
> very impressive, I'll admit - it's not supposed to be.

Great! Thought... Since I don't feel like I want to mess around, I think I'll
stay a.out another week or two and let the dust settle. :-)

The question I have though, which isn't 100% clear to me:

Converting to ELF means that "all" the system binaries, etc will be in ELF
format. But if I have ports installed... like emacs, or xv, or whatever.
Those will still be a.out... Will the ELF world still run a.out programs
without problems?

The only change will be that all system program are ELF instead of a.out,
and I basically wont notice a thing, except for having to do the convertion?

  /Mikael

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