Re: Dropping a.out support

Harald Koenig (koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Fri, 2 May 1997 14:18:06 +0200


On May 2, Peter Mutsaers wrote:

> Would not any serious commercial vendor have a new ELF release of
> there product, more than 2 years after it has been introduced?

obviously not. and even if they would do so, you can't assume that
every user will upgrade to their newest release (probably paying again $$$)
just to get ELF binaries because Linux no longer supports a.out...

Harald

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