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From: chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey)
Subject: Re: libcompat.a missing?
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In article <23372@alice.att.com> jaap@alice.UUCP () writes:

>The fact that the compat library allowed you to run programs compiled
>on the pdp-11 using the -11 compatibility mode.

Perhaps, but I think the `libcompat.a' that he's interested in contains
4.1 BSD and 4.3 BSD compatability functions -- stuff like `ftime' and
`rexec' that are done differently in BSD systems later than 4.3-reno.

Chet
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Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University	Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu