Subject: Re: COMPAT_AOUT removal
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
From: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@kpnQwest.no>
List: current-users
Date: 08/10/2000 09:55:00
Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com> writes:

> I plan to remove COMPAT_AOUT in the following days.

Wonderful!  I'm looking forward to getting rid of all the silliness
that happens when a.out binaries (especially editor- and shell-like
things) inspect directories and don't find what I expect there, like
for instance showing me a next-to-empty /usr.

Thanks!

-tih
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