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From: tkacik@kyzyl.mi.org (Tom Tkacik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: 3.0 How different is it?
Message-ID: <319@kyzyl.mi.org>
Date: 16 Apr 91 10:57:38 GMT
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In article <ASHERMAN.91Apr14231552@dino.cpe.ulowell.edu>, asherman@dino.cpe.ulowell.edu (Aaron Sherman) writes:
> I have a Unix-PC (20Mb drive w/ 1Mb ram) that eledges that it is running
> version 3.0 of the OS. Is this incompatible with the most current 
> release? I have had trouble using the binaries from some of the
> archives, and had assumed that it was just a problem with my means
> of file-transfer.

> Could it be the shared libraries?
 
Yes, the problem is the shared libraries.  They appear to be different
between 3.0 and 3.5-3.51.  If shared libraries are not used, you should
not have any problem.

I suppose this means that any binary that someone wants to have placed
in the osu archives should be compiled WITHOUT the shared libraries.
They will be a little larger, but at least everyone will be able to
use them.

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