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Subject: Re: NROFF drivers
Message-ID: <2308@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: Sun, 12-Apr-87 03:19:38 EST
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Summary: they're a.out's in BSD

In article <482@unirot.UUCP>, patwood@unirot.UUCP (Patrick Wood) writes:
> Sorry, but an nroff driver table is not an "a.out".

Sigh, another USG difference.  I should have identified the environment.
On 4.2 BSD and 4.3 BSD, the command "file /usr/lib/term/tab*" identifies
them all as "executable".  (IS/1 on VMS used PDP-11 a.out's)!

> Nroff reads this file (doesn't link or load it) into its internal data
> structures

and it adds the new base address to each string pointer, like a linker.

Don Speck   speck@vlsi.caltech.edu  {seismo,rutgers,ames}!cit-vax!speck