Re: COFF

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From: Patrick Hertel
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 1990 11:44

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In article <9007171554.AA26732@asylum.gsfc.nasa.gov> you write:
>Excuse my ignorance, but WTF is COFF? An ATT-ism? Why is it good/bad? 
>
>I saw somewhere a `robotussin' program which call ed itself COFF-medicine,
>and I'm curious.
>
>Thanks for the enlightenment.

 COFF is an AT&Tism and stands for Common Object File Format. The idea 
being to have a common format for object files on different machines. 
There is an O'Reilly Nutshell book on it. Whether it is good or bad is
a moot point since it is being replaced in SVR4 with ELF.
-- 
Pat Hertel                 Canadian Meteorological Centre
Analyst/Programmer         Environment Canada
phertel@cmc.aes.doe.ca
    "Nobody loves me but my mother and she could be jiving too" - B.B. King

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From: afsipmh@cid.aes.doe.CA (Patrick Hertel)
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