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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: where is libc.a?
Message-ID: <1363@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 26 Feb 91 06:14:15 GMT
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In article <16974@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> cpenrose@sdcc13.ucsd.edu
	(Christopher Penrose) writes:
>                  Unfortunately, almost all sun system binaries
>depend upon this library.  sh, csh, ls, even halt were all broken.

sh (also jsh) and ls are not broken on NeXT 2.0.
Oops!  halt *is* broken (and so is sync).  Hey NeXT!

csh is not something that needs to work in single-user mode, and
it does benefit from shared libraries.

					-=EPS=-


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