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Subject: Re: What are the plans for ELF support?
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 10:36:19 +0200 (MESZ)
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In-Reply-To: <28158.839579412@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 9, 96 01:30:12 am
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E-mail message from Jordan K. Hubbard contained:

[ my rather blunt response deleted; please accept my appology for the tone ]
> 
> I wouldn't have phrased it quite that way.
> 
> There's been experimental work underway for months to make FreeBSD
> generate native ELF binaries, and you can even get a pre-release kit
> for it all from John Polstra, there's just no rush to *replace* any of
> our a.out based stuff with ELF.  As has already been said in this list
> many, many times before (and Mark should learn to use the mail archive
> search feature at http://www.freebsd.org, using "ELF" as a keyword
> ;-), we'll only switch to ELF if and when it demonstrates a set of
> advantages which outweigh the disadvantages of changing.

You definitely did phrase it better--a native English speaker, it shows :)

Sorry for the offense.

/Marino
> 
> 					Jordan
>