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From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Shared libraries (was Re: Window system bashing (was Re: X11 bashing))
Message-ID: <1991May10.133720.12358@decuac.dec.com>
Date: 10 May 91 13:37:20 GMT
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>>mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum):
>> 
>> 	I was talking this over with someone the other day who claimed
>> that SunOs' more recent versions have "often used" utilities like /bin/ls
>> statically linked [...]

	Thanks to everyone who set me straight on this. The source of the
disinformation was, surprisingly, an instructor in an internals course - 
maybe those who don't know do, in fact, teach. I don't have access to
Suns around here, for some reason or another... :)

mjr.