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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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