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From: tgl@zog.cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Backwards compatibility in Series 300 HPUX?
Message-ID: <9992@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 24 Jul 90 18:57:16 GMT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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Can I take the executable file of a program compiled under HPUX 7.0
and run it under earlier versions (say 6.5 or 6.2)?

Presumably the answer is "it depends".  The particular case I'm interested
in today is a program that uses curses(3) and hence the terminfo database;
it does not use X Windows or any other graphics stuff, nor any networking
libraries.  For future reference, though, I'd also like to know about
object code portability of X Windows applications.

Any info will be greatly appreciated.  E-mail if you like, and I'll
summarize answers in a few days.

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