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From: "Pedro Giffuni S." <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > Out of curiosity, can somebody explain (or point me to) what exactly makes
> > the FreeBSD a.out superior to similar formats found on other systems?
> 
> I don't think that anyone claimed them to be necessarily "superior",

Just for the sake of clarity, I only said FBSD´s a.out are better than
Linux´s a.out, and that´s one fo the reasons why fbsd doesn´t seem in a
hurry to use ELF.
Anyway, I think there is (or was) experimental ELF support somewhere in
freefall. True?

Pedro.
>                                         Jordan