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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Now that 2.1 is out. What next?
Date: 17 Dec 1995 00:14:34 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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jgoerzen@complete.org (John Goerzen) wrote:
]
] Clint Olsen (olsenc@kodiak.ee.washington.edu) wrote:
] : How about ELF?
] 
] Can somebody explain what ELF is?  I keep seing it mentioned but I don't
] know what it is....

The next version of the COOF linker format; it's "Extensible
Linker Format" or "Extended Link Format" or something like
that.

Think of it as a new, incompatable way to make .o and .exe
files.


                                        Terry Lambert
                                        terry@cs.weber.edu
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