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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Motif shared library?
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Date: 12 Mar 90 19:41:31 GMT
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>In terms of how to do it on SunOS 4.0.x, you create two parts to a shared 
>library--.so and .sa.  The .so is the entire shared library.  The .sa part
>contains the information that a client of the library references *by name*.

Err, it contains *data* that the client may reference by name - not
code, even if it is referred to by name.  If it contained code, said
code wouldn't be shared.