From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 31 11:43:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA06796 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 11:43:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06759 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 11:43:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.9.1/frmug-2.3/nospam) with UUCP id UAA13226 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 20:42:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: by keltia.freenix.fr (VMailer, from userid 101) id A04301515; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 20:33:35 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 20:33:35 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Today is E-day Message-ID: <19980831203335.A23090@keltia.freenix.fr> Mail-Followup-To: current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199808310148.LAA16829@cimlogic.com.au> <199808311451.QAA05233@ocean.campus.luth.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.4i In-Reply-To: <199808311451.QAA05233@ocean.campus.luth.se>; from Mikael Karpberg on Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 04:51:34PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#4603 AMD-K6 MMX @ 200 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message