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Date:      Sat, 31 May 1997 18:40:27 -0800 (AKDT)
From:      Steve Howe <un_x@anchorage.net>
To:        Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Binaries
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970531183906.1359A-100000@aak.anchorage.net>
In-Reply-To: <199705311936.NAA18541@obie.softweyr.ml.org>

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On Sat, 31 May 1997, Wes Peters wrote:

> FreeBSD uses a.out because there aren't any good reasons to change.

i thought the "good reason" was that ELF binaries could be run on any
ELF compatable UN*X machine - ie - no compiling. ?
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