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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:8827 comp.os.386bsd.misc:1965 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!basser.cs.su.oz.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: [q] Why (Free & Net)BSD use different binaries? Date: 18 Feb 1994 16:34:54 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 21 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.94Feb18113454@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <CL7tvx.A74@news.cis.umn.edu> <2jotfv$irj@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> <JKH.94Feb15192206@whisker.hubbard.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie's message of 15 Feb 1994 19:22:05 GMT In article <JKH.94Feb15192206@whisker.hubbard.ie> jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: NetBSD is running their own version of ZMAGIC, FreeBSD is running with basically BSDI's QMAGIC. This is a bit misleading. NetBSD's ZMAGIC is identical to BSDI's QMAGIC, except that the magic number is in the more standard `ZMAGIC + machine id' format, in network byte order, so that it's recognizable by kernels and file(1)s on different architectures. Currently neither FreeBSD nor BSDI have to worry about this. NetBSD can also run QMAGIC, old-style (4.3BSD and 386BSD) ZMAGIC, and even NMAGIC and OMAGIC executables. -- - Charles Hannum NetBSD group Working ports: i386, hp300, amiga, sparc, mac68k, pc532. In progress: pmax, sun3.