Subject: Re: Snapshot isn't VAX code??!?
To: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis@mcmanis.com>
From: Brian D Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/23/1999 01:58:57
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Chuck McManis wrote:

> The code on ftp.netbsd.org in :
> 	/pub/NetBSD/arch/vax/snapshot/19981201/binary/sets
> 
> Is _NOT_ vax code. It may have been at one time but it isn't now. To verify
> it extract any executable out of base.tgz and run the file command on it.
> You will see what I mean. 
> 
> I'm wondering if somehow someone byteswapped it or something when writing it.

>From what system are you checking the binaries with `file'?

-brian.
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