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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Shared libraries (was Re: Window system bashing (was Re: X11 bashing))
Message-ID: <1991May10.145023.11691@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 10 May 91 14:50:23 GMT
References: <1991May09.032802.27213@decuac.dec.com> <4692@gmdzi.gmd.de> <1991May10.133720.12358@decuac.dec.com>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <1991May10.133720.12358@decuac.dec.com> mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:
>>>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

  Actually it is a pity that Sun's /bin/ls is not statically linked.  If it
were it would make life much easier for those who want to set up an
anonymous ftp account.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940