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Re: Stable means not-changing?



According to Scott K. Ellis:
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> On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 23, 1997 at 10:06:09PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > > 	Do not remove libc4 until you are sure there is not program on
> > >  your machine that depends on libc4.
> > 
> > It is my understanding (and experience) that ld.so 1.9, needed for libc6,
> > will not run a.out binaries anyway.
> 
> Due to popular outcry, ldso still includes support for a.out, although it
> is unsupported and unmaintained.  As far as I know, it works at the moment
> though.

I have the old game "sasteroids" in a.out format. It still works with 
ldso 1.9.6-2, libc 4.6.27-15, and aout-svgalib 1.2.10-4.

kws

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