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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!uunet.ca!uunet.ca!fw.novatel.ca!sidney.novatel.ca!hpeyerl From: hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: FreeBSD supports BSDI executables? [was: gnat 1.83 for FreeBSD 1.1.5] Date: 9 Nov 1994 14:33:38 GMT Organization: NovAtel Communications Ltd. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <39qmk3$so7@fw.novatel.ca> References: <NILS.94Nov2155610@gerfalke.ims.uni-stuttgart.de> <399rmb$jle@cynjut.infonet.net> <Cyt2MG.76s@luva.lb.bawue.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: sidney.novatel.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Michael Giegerich (migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de) wrote: : In article <399rmb$jle@cynjut.infonet.net>, : Dave Burgess <burgess@cynjut.infonet.net> wrote: : [...] : >Since both FreeBSD and NetBSD seem to support the BSDI QMAGIC format for : >static executables, is there any hope that this is the way that you : say that FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 executables linked -static not only : seem to but actually do work with BSDI-1.1. : The contrary, alas, isn't true :-( Huh? Really? Just to clarify, this is not true with NetBSD. I run BSDI executables on my NetBSD/i386 machine and they work fine. I also run some FreeBSD executables but only out of laziness. -- hpeyerl@novatel.ca | NovAtel Communications Ltd. hpeyerl@beer.org | <nothing I say matters anyway> On your birthday 10/02 322 BC: Aristotle dies of indigestion. [hmm]