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From: brad@optilink.UUCP (Brad Yearwood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Is "atom" source available (ancient Sun-2 executables)
Message-ID: <4932@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 90 06:56:39 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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Does anyone know if NeXT makes available the source code to their
"atom" utility (on their GNU disk or on some other distribution)?

I would like to try a performance benchmark with a couple of third-party
programs which are available only as Sun-2 executable files, and "atom"
will not accept these.  These programs unfortunately have small text
segments, so the subterfuge of first using Sun's "sun3cvt" utility before
"atom" does not work - it wants the text segment to be >128K.

I am not yet certain whether Sun-2 executables fall afoul of something
fundamental in the NeXT Mach environment which would prohibit conversion,
or if Sun-2 executables were simply not relevant enough to justify investing
any effort in atom's being able to process them.

Brad Yearwood   {uunet, pyramid}!optilink!brad       Petaluma, CA