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Date:      Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:47:15 -0800
From:      "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" <insane@oneinsane.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.0-19990202-SNAP a.out problem
Message-ID:  <19990203114715.A27993@the.oneinsane.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9902031132030.1994-100000@phluffy.fks.bt>; from Mike Holling on Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 11:32:57AM -0800
References:  <19990203121741.C80461@rain.futuresouth.com> <Pine.BSF.4.03.9902031132030.1994-100000@phluffy.fks.bt>

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On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 11:32:57AM -0800, Mike Holling wrote:
> > 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

I have to agree with Mike here.. Especially when I am bringing a new box
up to play with 3.0 while I have 2 happily running 2.2.8-STABLE

TIA
Ron

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