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To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami)
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Subject: Re: 3.0-19990202-SNAP a.out problem 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Feb 1999 16:01:46 PST."
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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 18:37:46 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
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I guess, yeah.  We don't currently make the a.out stuff at all,
so I guess I'm still waiting for Peter (who's been maintaining them
up to now) to roll me a compat22 distribution. :)

- Jordan

>  * The a.out libraries are still available, of course, and I have no problems
>  * running any of my reasonably (~1 year) up to date a.out stuff.
> 
> Will it be a sysinstall option?  What would be the recommended way for 
> ports to verify that they are available?  (Check /usr/lib/aout/crt0.o?)
> 
> I'd like to put in some safety belts so we won't see an influx of "why 
> doesn't my netscape work?" messages when people install 3.1R....
> 
> Satoshi


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