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From: hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Barriers to NetBSD/FreeBSD binary compatibility?
Date: 21 Aug 1994 13:57:19 GMT
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Brian de Alwis (bsdealwi@math.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
: What about statically-linked FreeBSD binaries? Do they work?

From the few that I tried; after converting the a.out, they worked fine.

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