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Date:      Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:32:57 -0800 (PST)
From:      Mike Holling <myke@ees.com>
To:        Stormy Henderson <stormy@futuresouth.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: 3.0-19990202-SNAP a.out problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9902031132030.1994-100000@phluffy.fks.bt>
In-Reply-To: <19990203121741.C80461@rain.futuresouth.com>

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> a.out will be gone from FreeBSD as of 3.1, and is disabled by default in
> 3.0.  This would be fine except for the 3rd party a.out binaries...like
> Netscape.  One hopes Netscape will switch to ELF before a.out is gone
> (hah).

I suspect that this decision will be reversed, or a huge majority of the
-stable crowd will stick with 2.2.8 forever.  It's pretty unlikely that
everything can be recompiled for ELF that quickly.

- Mike



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