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From: tgs@cats.ucsc.edu (Thomas Gunnar Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc
Subject: Re: OpenBSD vs. FreeBSD
Date: 3 Mar 1997 01:36:26 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
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Thomas Gunnar Sparks (tgs@cats.ucsc.edu) wrote:
: : > 	Also, are the FreeBSD binaries compatible with OpenBSD?
: : 
: : OpenBSD can run FreeBSD binaries.  I don't know if the
: : converse is true as I've never run FreeBSD.
: 
: I dunno, give me some OpenBSD binaries and let me find out :)
: something small tho...

Well, someone sent me a binary of ls, and it didn't work on my FreeBSD 
machine :)
Although I'm not sure if it was corrupted or anything...