>Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 10:37:17 -0500 (EST)
>From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>

>What exactly *IS* COMPAT_43 for, anyway? I mean, its not like I have
>all these old BSD 4.3 binaries sitting around for my box...

COMPAT_43 includes support for 4.3BSD APIs, like sgtty.  Some
software, e.g. xterm, won't work without sgtty support.
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