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>"um, no." nothing.  i was talking about ports that have recently done
>the ELF conversion or are about to -- i386 sparc & m68k.  what i said
>holds true for these.  i wasn't clear on this -- but it is what i meant.


Oh, okay. As rephrased, that's fine. But what you wrote the first time
was very different.  Other ports have transitioned to ELF, and not
done what you said.  You never said "recent". For me, ELF transitions
are long past, slittle wonder I took it differently.
still, apoilogies.

which, btw, is why I think it'dbe a mistake to embed the object format
in the OS name. It's a short-term trnasition, one we'll want to
wwildcard "soon".  wildcarding netbsd{elf,aout} ith * breaks
wildcarding on OS version.  (Whic is why I said "no" so
bluntly). Whether it gets done as an addition -{elf,aout} on the end,
or an place of the vendor string, is a minor detail.


sorry for the typos; I'm pulling down -current over a ricochet and
typing this with 10sec response time. Gosh, if I close my eyes and
touch-type it gets much better! (thats how I did this paragraph).
-- what's it lok like?