Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: [available] sound applications: xboing, tracker and NetBSD-0.8.sound Date: 8 Oct 1993 22:30:08 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 36 Message-ID: <294plg$c9e@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <hastyCDzEwM.384@netcom.com> <28p0cfINNaqe@flinx.robin.de> <28qme0$bgo@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <33223@ksr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <33223@ksr.com>, John F. Woods <jfw@ksr.com> wrote: >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. Hmm, what about the BSDI (non-network byte order) format? I'm not absolutlely positive, but fairly sure that the format was DIFFERENT than the FreeBSD/386BSD format, and it was changed yet again in 0.8-current to be the new network-byte order format it is now. So the default format is NOT compatible with 386BSD. If you have definite knowlege of this not being the case, then by all means correct me, but I'm positive that NetBSD has had at least 2 different a.out formats released to the public since it's beginnings. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me