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From: mike@shogun.cc.umich.edu (Michael Nowak)
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Subject: Re: Porting binaries
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Date: 4 Aug 89 20:01:55 GMT
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In article <JGREELY.89Jul29102907@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu> J Greely <jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>In article <MCCALPIN.89Jul28133612@masig2.ocean.fsu.edu> mccalpin@masig2.ocean.fsu.edu (John D. McCalpin) writes:
>>I have heard that it is possible to run sun3 binaries on the NeXT
>>(at least under 0.9).
>
>Since this one keeps coming up, I'll trash it publicly.  The ability
>to run Sun 3 binaries was a feature of Mach that was supported under
>0.8.  It went bye-bye in 0.9.  Having been removed, the chances of it
>reappearing are slim to none (leaning towards none, I'm sure).
>J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)

Under 0.9, you can use the command "atom" to convert some Sun binaries
to NeXT binaries.  I believe the syntax is:

atom <sun3binary> <nextbinary>



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