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From: joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: UNIX sys V4.0
Message-ID: <sgyDR7w163w@valnet>
Date: 21 Oct 90 10:49:15 GMT
References: <15290@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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ag@cbmvax.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski) writes:

> In article <Oct.19.21.05.49.1990.9272@pilot.njin.net> limonce@pilot.njin.net
> (Tom Limoncelli) writes:
> >In article <15271@cbmvax.commodore.com> ag@cbmvax.commodore.com
> (Keith Gabryelski) writes:
> >> GCC has been modified to deal with ELF executables as well as Position
> >> Independent Code.
> >
> >I'll bite, what is ELF?  (...and where is PIC usable in Unix?)
> 
> ELF is the new a.out format used in SVR4.  PIC code is used in dynamic
> libraries.
> 
> Pax, Keith

Ok. So what the hell is a.out? Also, does Amiga UNIX have online man 
pages? (I'm used to using XENIX/286. NO ONLINE HELP! [BTW, I've convinced 
this guy he wants an A3000UX :)

-Joseph Hillenburg

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