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From: Craig Shaver <craig@progroup.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 22:48:01 -0800
Organization: Productivity Group, Inc.
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Terry Lambert wrote:
del ....
> 
> In other words, why is it necessary for FreeBSD to switch over
> to ELF?  "To find ELF bugs" is a silly rationale, even if
> FreeBSD were the only source of feedback...
> 
> I don't disagree that there *can be* long term benefits to ELF,
> only that there is any immediate benefit, other than "it is new,
> we must flock to it in a zombie-like stupor".
> 

Doesn't elf help with c++ linking problems?


>                                         Terry Lambert
>                                         terry@cs.weber.edu
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.

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Craig Shaver  (craig@progroup.com) (415)390-0654 
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