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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: 4.12 Binary Formats
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On Thu, 29 Aug 2013, John Baldwin wrote:

> 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.

Removed, ejected, and expunged in 42604.