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Re: Gnu and NeXT

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From: Michael I Bushnell
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1992 18:40
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In article <1992Apr26.211116.4533@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu> ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio) writes:

   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?

I think you're right, but since the preferred object file format will
eventually by Mach-O on GNU, it will eventually be supported.

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From: mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell)
Subject: Re: Gnu and NeXT
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