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From: tron@lyssa.owl.de (Matthias Scheler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to make NetBSD-1.2 i386 execute ELF binaries
Date: 30 Jan 1997 22:20:57 +0100
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In article <5clb32$g3o$1@vishnu.jussieu.fr>,
	bouyer@antifer.ibp.fr (Manuel BOUYER) writes:
> Yes. Put COMPAT_LINUX or COMPAT_SVR4 in your kernel config file (they are
> mutually exclusives).

They are not. It's just that because there is no good way to determine
under which OS an ELF binary must run NetBSD sometimes has trouble to
identify Linux binaries if both emulations are available.

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Matthias Scheler				http://colwyn.owl.de/~tron/