From owner-freebsd-hackers  Tue Aug 13 01:18:05 1996
Return-Path: owner-hackers
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA29456
          for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 01:18:05 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from fgate.flevel.co.uk (root@fgate.flevel.co.uk [194.6.101.2])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA29451
          for <hackers@FreeBSD.org>; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 01:18:00 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from localhost (dev@localhost) by fgate.flevel.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA01815; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 09:20:58 +0100 (BST)
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 09:20:57 +0100 (BST)
From: Developer <dev@fgate.flevel.co.uk>
To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>,
        "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at>,
        Mark Diekhans <markd@Grizzly.COM>, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: What are the plans for ELF support?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960809120416.13368D-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960813091920.1694A-100000@fgate.flevel.co.uk>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk



> I hope there will remain the compat kit for those who might want to use 
> old programs. Or will FreeBSD be able to "on the fly" mix and match ELF 
> and a.out libs and binaries?

Well, I hope that in future BSD will support both and we can just compile
with --elf :) 

Regards,

Trefor S.