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From: cmott@srv.net (Charles Mott)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: ELF?
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 16:30:47 -0700
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There was a big commotion about a year ago in 
the LInux world about switching from the a.out
executable format to ELF (I don't actually know
what the difference between these two formats
is).  Is this something that *BSD will have to
go through, or can it be avoided indefinitely?