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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: [available] sound applications: xboing, tracker and NetBSD-0.8.sound Message-ID: <hastyCELusx.8xn@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <294plg$c9e@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <hastyCELqH6.2A7@netcom.com> <29507g$ci5@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1993 01:00:32 GMT Lines: 74 In article <29507g$ci5@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >In article <hastyCELqH6.2A7@netcom.com>, >Amancio Hasty Jr <hasty@netcom.com> wrote: > >[ NetBSD 0.8 a.out format ] >>In article <294plg$c9e@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >>>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. >>> >>> >>********* >> >>I still think that the NetBSD-0.8 executables are binary compatible > ^^^^^ >>with 386bsd perhaps not with FreeBSD. > >Don't think, find out. This discussion needs facts, not opinions. > >Since FreeBSD executables are EXACTLY the same format as 386bsd, then that >statement is impossible. > >> I had binaries from 386bsd >>working with my NetBSD-0.8 system and had no problems. In fact, >>I had the capability of booting 386bsd or NetBSD-0.8 from a >>separate disk and I assured you that I did shared binaries. > >Yes, that is fine, but we're talking about NetBSD executables on >other systems, not other systems executables on NetBSD. The executables >that NetBSD PRODUCES are NOT compatible with 386bsd or FreeBSD, because >the DEFAULT format is NOT the same. > Let me make this very, very clear: On IDE drive C: I had 386bsd-0.1 On SCSCI drive 0: I have NetBSD-0.8 Follow so far. good. With the BIOS setup, I chose which drive to boot from C: or I specify uninstalled to boot from my SCSI drive. There were plenty of times in which I ran either 386bsd-0.1 or NetBSD-0.8 and had no problems whatsoever in running my binaries. For instance, I was able to run NetBSD-0.8 binaries when I had booted my 386bsd-0.1 system. To clarify further all my NetBSD-0.8 binaries are in my scsi drive. I really don't care what is the current a.out format of the latest release of NetBSD or FreeBSD, the kernel in question is NetBSD-0.8. Is there anyone from NetBSD listening? Hello :-) Amancio -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming