Um, as I remember reading, some ports have always been ELF. And aren't some still on a.out? If I am right, the question of why move to ELF (or even if one has moved to ELF, or has to ``move'' to get to ELF) is platform specific, and would be better answered on a port-* list. Yes? No? "I probably don't know what I'm talking about." --rauch@eecs.ukans.edu