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From: john@bradley.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Binary incompatibility on SysV R2.1
Message-ID: <9300002@bradley>
Date: Thu, 23-Apr-87 10:16:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Apr 23 10:16:00 1987
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Nf-From: bradley.UUCP!john    Apr 23 09:16:00 1987


I have a 3B2/300 running System V Release 2.1 and while
trying to run some commercial programs (filePro 16/Crystalwriter), I get 
the following error:

	foo: cannot execute

In the 2.1 Release notes and it says that certain programs compiled with
an older C compiler will cause this problem.  It then tells you to
recompile the offending program with a 3.0 or newer version of the C
compiler.  It also says that you can to a 'dump -vf foo' and if you
see a F_BM32RST flag set, then you must recompile it.

What does the F_BM32RST flag do and is there a way to convert the binary to
get it to run?  We are going to upgrade our machine(s) to release 3 
this summer, will this problem also exist when I upgrade to 3.[01]

When I mentioned the problem to the hot line about filePro not being able to
run, they basically refused to listen to me since filePro is not supported
by AT&T.  I just wanted to find out what the differences were between
2.0 and 2.1, but they still wouldn't listen.  They told me it wasn't their 
problem and that I could talk to Small Computer Company (makers of filePro 16) 
By the way, Small wouldn't listen to me either, they said it "wasn't their 
problem, and I should talk to AT&T)  It is good to see that somethings never
change.

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