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From: hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: FreeBSD supports BSDI executables? [was: gnat 1.83 for FreeBSD 1.1.5]
Date: 9 Nov 1994 14:33:38 GMT
Organization: NovAtel Communications Ltd.
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References: <NILS.94Nov2155610@gerfalke.ims.uni-stuttgart.de> <399rmb$jle@cynjut.infonet.net> <Cyt2MG.76s@luva.lb.bawue.de>
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Michael Giegerich (migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de) wrote:
: In article <399rmb$jle@cynjut.infonet.net>,
: Dave Burgess <burgess@cynjut.infonet.net> wrote:
: [...]
: >Since both FreeBSD and NetBSD seem to support the BSDI QMAGIC format for
: >static executables, is there any hope that this is the way that you

: say that FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 executables linked -static not only
: seem to but actually do work with BSDI-1.1.

: The contrary, alas, isn't true :-(

Huh? Really? Just to clarify, this is not true with NetBSD.  I run BSDI
executables on my NetBSD/i386 machine and they work fine.  I also run some
FreeBSD executables but only out of laziness.

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