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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!odin!chet From: chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey) Subject: Re: libcompat.a missing? Message-ID: <1992Aug3.111750.2845@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ins.cwru.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: odin.ins.cwru.edu Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA) References: <sxjcb-300792181914@sxjcb.uacn.alaska.edu> <23372@alice.att.com> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 92 11:17:50 GMT Lines: 16 In article <23372@alice.att.com> jaap@alice.UUCP () writes: >The fact that the compat library allowed you to run programs compiled >on the pdp-11 using the -11 compatibility mode. Perhaps, but I think the `libcompat.a' that he's interested in contains 4.1 BSD and 4.3 BSD compatability functions -- stuff like `ftime' and `rexec' that are done differently in BSD systems later than 4.3-reno. Chet -- ``The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.'' -- Arthur Schlesinger Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu