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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: Undocumented switches? pre-1.1 binaries executable w/ 1.1?
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References: <CSHAKER.94Apr25150312@shaker-bsd.cisco.com> <STARK!GENE.94Apr26223518@stark.uucp> <CozLnC.C91@luva.stgt.sub.org> <2q0svr$3vv@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 13:21:46 GMT
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In <2q0svr$3vv@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:

>In article <CozLnC.C91@luva.stgt.sub.org>,
>Michael Giegerich <migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org> wrote:
>>BTW (one stupid qustion), does FreeBSD-1.1 will be able to execute
>>old 1.0 (not dynamically linked) binaries (or have I to recompile
>>*all* those megabytes of old stuff)?

>Yes.

In fact more than just old 1.0 binaries -- up until recently I was
still running old 386bsd-0.1 binaries  (which are really just the
same as 1.0), and other people have apparently (I have not seen this)
run static BSDI binaries on FreeBSD.  I think statically linked
NetBSD binaries should also still run on FreeBSD 1.1.

Geoff.
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