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Date:      Mon, 31 Aug 1998 20:33:35 +0200
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: Today is E-day
Message-ID:  <19980831203335.A23090@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <199808311451.QAA05233@ocean.campus.luth.se>; from Mikael Karpberg on Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 04:51:34PM %2B0200
References:  <199808310148.LAA16829@cimlogic.com.au> <199808311451.QAA05233@ocean.campus.luth.se>

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According to Mikael Karpberg:
> Those will still be a.out... Will the ELF world still run a.out programs
> without problems?

Yes.
 
> 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?

Exactly. That's what happened on my box at work. It is now happily running
a mixture of ELF and a.out binaries (mainly /usr/local and everything X
related).

-- 
Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #62: Mon Jul 27 20:47:08 CEST 1998


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