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Date:      Mon, 7 Dec 1998 17:56:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
To:        FreeBSD-chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Beta Testers For Applixware? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812071733370.1664-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199812072353.PAA00898@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Mike Smith wrote:

>> BTW, will it be ELF, a.out, or both ???
>> I pre-ordered it, but I don't know what I'll receive. I am glad WC made
>> it, after all.
>
>It will probably be a.out, built to run against a 2.2.x system.  It 
>will be tested on both 2.2.x and 3.0.

This makes business sense but...

# This part of build should be regarded as deprecated and you should _not_
# expect to be able to do this past the release of 3.1. You have exactly
# one major release to move entirely to elf.

and loosely 

"FreeBSD is not going to be a pick your binary format system," stated by
sources unremembered.

Based on the above, I have already -DNOAOUTed my entire system. I hope
it's trivial to put AOUT support back in. I am really looking forward to
trying Applixware as a better alternative to StarOffice.

3.0 _is_ RELEASE. Maybe we should treat it as such. I get the feeling the
3.0-RELEASE is the redheaded step child of the FreeBSD world. "Sure we put
it on our web page but you might want to run 2.2.8 instead."

Catchya Later,		|	UW Mechanical Engineering
Jason Wells		|	http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/


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