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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ELF support for FreeBSD ?
Date: 8 Mar 1996 09:12:27 GMT
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aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) writes:

> Is ELF support planned for FreeBSd ?  If yes, when is it expected ?

The first ELF binaries are reported to run.

> I ask because I hear that Oracle will be releasing ELF binaries and
> I would like to be able to run Oracle on my system.

But that's certainly not ELF/FreeBSD binaries?

(However, work for ELF/Linux is also on the way.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

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