Re: Gnu and NeXT

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From: Doug DeJulio
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1992 21:11

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In article <182@colossus.mct-aria> allan@mct.uucp ( System Guru) writes:
> [...]  I am quite
> attracted to the NeXT machine.  I've had the loan of one for a week or
> so and as a general Unix platform it's been impressive.  Is there
> anyone out there using gnu software on NeXT in anger and if so, what
> are your feelings about the combination??  What are the problems,
> pitfalls?? 

The main pitfall I've seen is that as far as I know there's no BFD for
the NeXT object file format ("Mach-O"), so the GNU binary utilities
don't work on it.

Can somebody please tell me I'm wrong?
-- 
Doug DeJulio
ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (NeXT, AMS/ATK and MIME mail welcome)

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From: ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio)
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Subject: Re: Gnu and NeXT
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Date: 26 Apr 92 21:11:16 GMT
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