From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 16 18:09:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA01298 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 18:09:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA01277 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 18:09:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul6.u.washington.edu (root@saul6.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.1]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id SAA37282; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 18:09:13 -0700 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul6.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id SAA00137; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 18:09:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 18:09:00 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: Loren Daniel Koss cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is ELF? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Loren Daniel Koss wrote: >I keep seeing people mention ELF. What is it? This is in the FAQ. ELF is a format for binary executables. FreeBSD is switching to ELF. FreeBSD used to use a format called "a.out" named for the filename that a compiler would output by default. Unless you are planning on upgrading very soon, you don't need to worry about ELF. Yet... Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message