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From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: 4.12 Binary Formats
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On Wednesday, August 07, 2013 8:08:17 pm Hugh O'Brien wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm a relatively long time user but was recently reading through the
> handbook to see if there was anything I could learn when I found this
> section:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/binary-
formats.html
> 
> It's an interesting read, but I must question the wisdom of including it in
> this stage of the handbook, where users are still new to the system. It
> stands apart from the more immediately practical knowledge in the previous
> pages and might be better suited to a page on writing your own programs.
> 
> I just wanted to call attention to this,

This section should likely just be axed.  It was a Big Deal when FreeBSD 3.0 
switched from a.out to elf, but FreeBSD has been an ELF-only system for over
a decade now.

-- 
John Baldwin