Subject: Re: Fat binaries
To: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
From: Tobias Weingartner <weingart@austin.BrandonU.CA>
List: current-users
Date: 04/12/1995 02:02:09
In message <199504111635.MAA07513@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>, der Mouse writes:
> 
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> 
> How about the following as a fat binary?  (Obviously the btoa data
> sections are not for real. :-)
> 
> #! /bin/sh
> fn=/tmp/$$.exec
> case `arch` in
> 	sun4)	atob << \EOF
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I hope that ':-)' was intended for the idea.  What about the /bin/sh, arch,
and atob binaries?  The above will only work if those binaries are architec.
independant.  And if they are, why not others?

IMHO: fat binaries are *UGLY*.

--Toby.
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