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Date:      Mon, 27 Dec 2004 18:43:46 +1030
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Twatchai Saelao <Twatchai.Saelao@reuters.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Program Backward compatibility for FreeBSD 2.25
Message-ID:  <20041227081346.GI19771@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <DC07EF0785F73C4B9E33917516D62F381C2667@BKKSMSXM01.apac.ime.reuters.com>
References:  <DC07EF0785F73C4B9E33917516D62F381C2667@BKKSMSXM01.apac.ime.reuters.com>

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On Monday, 27 December 2004 at 14:34:34 +0700, Twatchai Saelao wrote:
> Hi
>  I have 1 application develope on FreeBSD 2.2.5 (a long time but still
> in use). I need to upgrade OS from 2.25 to 5.3 but Application can not
> run of this version.
> Message after call application is "cannot execute binary file". Please
> help/advise me. Thank you.

Newer versions of FreeBSD no longer support the old a.out binary file
format.  Try this:

  kldload aout

Then try again.  I've never tried this, so please report whether it
works or not.  If it doesn't, you can try building a kernel with the
option

options		COMPAT_AOUT

Greg
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