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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and NetBSD exec formats
Date: 13 Feb 1996 17:05:06 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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Message-ID: <4fqgc2$ai4@helena.MT.net>
References: <311FA8F8.448@myp.com>
Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
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In article <311FA8F8.448@myp.com>, Dean Roth  <dean@myp.com> wrote:
>Do these two systems use the same executable format

No.

>so that a program
>compiled on one OS will run on the other?

You can run NetBSD executables under FreeBSD, although I'm not sure if
the reverse is true.


Nate

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