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From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: [available] sound applications: xboing, tracker and NetBSD-0.8.sound
Message-ID: <33223@ksr.com>
Date: 7 Oct 93 14:24:08 EDT
References: <hastyCDzEwM.384@netcom.com> <hastyCDzwJp.9D5@netcom.com> <1993Sep27.222440.29893@ieunet.ie> <28p0cfINNaqe@flinx.robin.de> <28qme0$bgo@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
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nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
>In article <28p0cfINNaqe@flinx.robin.de>,
>Hannes Deeken <hannes@flinx.RoBIN.de> wrote:
>>jkh@whisker.lotus.ie writes:
>>>>As for the binaries compiled under NetBSD-0.8, there is only one
>>!!!                                           ^
>>>>format available and it is the same as for 386bsd-0.1.
>>>Sorry, but this is just wrong.
>The default executable format for NetBSD is *NOT* the same format as the 
>stock 386BSD and FreeBSD a.out format.

The default executable format for NetBSD-0.8, as ->released<-, was the 386BSD
a.out format.  The "network byte order" a.out format hit NetBSD-0.8-current
about a week or two after the official release, I think, so anyone who was
keeping up with NetBSD-current probably strongly associates the byteswapped
format with 0.8.