Sun moving to Sys V

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From: Dale R. Worley
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 1990 00:29

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Sun is changing their version of Unix from BSD 4.2 derived to Sys V
derived.  Among other things, they are converting from a.out to COFF
format binaries.  I suspect this means that all Gnu tools that deal
with object code (especially GDB) will stop working.  Am I right?  Is
this a problem?

Dale
drw@math.mit.edu

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Subject: Sun moving to Sys V
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