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From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Binaries from other 386-UNIX'es ??
Date: 09 Dec 1993 19:13:54 GMT
Organization: Dublin, Ireland
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In-reply-to: hasty@netcom.com's message of Thu, 9 Dec 1993 02:31:32 GMT

In article <hastyCHqxoL.1p4@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:

   Well NetBSD can run BSDI's binaries and FreeBSD's binaries 
   FreeBSD can not run NetBSD or so was the last time I heard;however,
   there is a link option for NetBSD which is supposed to produce
   FreeBSD compatible binaries.

You're out of date, Amancio.  FreeBSD can run NetBSD and BSD/386
(BSDI) binaries.

				Jordan
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(Jordan K. Hubbard)  jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie