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Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 26-Jan-93 How to convert BSD
a.out fi.. by Michael Sepa@enel.ucalga 
>         I have an executable file on a SUN computer and I want to use
>         atom to convert it to an executable on my NeXT.  I have tried
>         to use:
>  
>         >atom a.out machfile
>  
>         and then execute the machfile:
>  
>         >machfile
>         Segmentation fault
>         
>    [ ...munch...]
>  
>         I have studied the atom man page, but I don't have a clue.  Could
>         some kind person show me the light?  Maybe I don't know what
>         atom is supposed to do.  I thought it could convert executables.

Atom converts executables and object files compiled for the NeXT in the
BSD4.3 a.out format into the Mach-O format.  There is no way that it is
going to be able to convert an executable compiled for a different
machine into something runable on the NeXT.  (Why?  Amoung many reasons,
the Sun executable likely was compiled for a different *CPU* than the
680x0...)

You will have to get the source code to whatever it is and recompile it
for the program to run on your NeXT.  (Sorry...)

-Chuck


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