Subject: Re: NOTICE: i386 port switched to ELF binary format
To: Michael C. Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: current-users
Date: 07/05/1999 19:17:34
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Michael C. Richardson wrote:

:   1. What format will 1.4.1 release with?

Uh, `duh.'  a.out.

:   2. why do we have to have these flag days where one can't go back?

Because there really isn't an `easy' way to `go boack'?

:   3. who has started the upgrade proceedure for 1.5 that will deal these
: 	issues?

Dunno, but sysinst should deal with this to come extent.  I will be rolling
the compat14 pkg sets which will contain the a.out compatibility libraries
for 1.4 and earlier binaries.

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-- Todd Vierling (tv@pobox.com)