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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:50:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Lukas Ruf <lukas@reichardt.ch>
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On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Lukas Ruf wrote:

> Is there a possibility to link OBJs to a.out using ld / gcc ??

Do you mean DOS .OBJ's?  No, the object format is completely different.

If you mean, can FreeBSD compile to a.out format from source, yes, we
haven't adopted ELF exclusively yet. 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major