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From: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP (Piercarlo Grandi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Microport 286 binaries on SysV3.2?
Summary: 286 DWB binaries are NOT in COFF format
Message-ID: <924@aber-cs.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 89 15:44:49 GMT
Reply-To: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
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	(Disclaimer: my statements are purely personal)
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In article <1989May5.060529.18967@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:

    I have been unsuccessful in attempts to make the Microport 286 DWB
    work on my Enix 3.2 (now to be renamed OSIX :-Q). Did Microport do
    something to AT&T COFF that makes it different from original AT&T
    specs?

The DWB executables for SV/AT are NOT in COFF format, but in some funny
Intel semi compatible format. I don't remember the name... You can find
it in the /etc/magic file of SV/AT. As far as I know, they are the only
applications ever to have appeared in that funny format.

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