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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!neoucom.edu!ns.mcs.kent.edu!kira.cc.uakron.edu!odin.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate 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 Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4fqgc2$ai4@helena.MT.net> References: <311FA8F8.448@myp.com> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net 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 -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. home #: (406) 443-7063 | A fly pole and a 4x4 Chevy truck = Heaven on Earth