Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 06:29:36 +1000 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se (Mikael Karpberg) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Today is E-day Message-ID: <199808312029.GAA21717@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199808311451.QAA05233@ocean.campus.luth.se> from Mikael Karpberg at "Aug 31, 98 04:51:34 pm"
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Mikael Karpberg wrote: > 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? 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? The programs look the same until close inspection by `file' or `nm', for example. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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