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From: j@interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: BSD Binary Compatibility
Date: 29 Sep 1995 14:23:22 +0100
Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden
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Binesh Bannerjee <binesh@panix.com> wrote:
>Hi... I'm primarily interested in writing CGI's for various servers, and I
>was wondering... If I compile programs on freebsd (for example) would they
>run on bsdi? Or vice versa, or netbsd and same question?

By now, only statically linked ones.  I'm not sure about statically
linked BSD/OS 2 binaries, but things like Netscape for the older
BSD/386 are widely in use under FreeBSD.
-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de
					[private: http://www.sax.de/~joerg/]