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From: John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: confusion
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 94 22:15:36 -0500
Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice)
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Henry Minsky <hqm@ai.mit.edu> writes:
 
>When I tried to run startx, it said "No ld.so". I didn't see any ld.so
>on my machine. Does FreeBSD have shared dynamic libraries? 
 
FreeBSD versions older than V1.1 dont have shared libraries.  V1.1 and
new does have shared libs.  It is dangerous to assume that netbsd and
freebsd are fully binary compatible.
 
John
dyson@implode.root.com