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Re[2]: moving from aout to ELF
Ariel Hagai <hariel@iil.intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > danielv@msil.sps.mot.com (Daniel Vainer) wrote:
> > > Hi all!
> > > Is that any way to move from aout format to ELF easily without
> > > installing everything again? I believe it requires some other libraries
> and
> > > couple of things in addition to that. Can somebody help?
>
> Come on folks !!
>
> If you want to answer, please do, most of us would really appreciate it.
> But don't reply with a single ridiculous sentence like this.
>
> > Read ELF-HOWTO
>
> Non of us was born a Unix/Linux Guru, and though you might think
> HOWTO-s and man pages are trivial,
Nothing is trivial; but you have to read docs if you want to do something; at
least you must try to.
> the majority of the novice users
> can't dig a damn thing from it, at least not in while acquiring
> the initial know-how.
If the guy knows that there are a.out and elf and _understands_ he needs to
upgrade, he's not novice user.
> What I mean is, If you want to help, give a brief overview and then
> redirect to the major source of information, preferably with explicit
> reference.
That's exactly what ELF-HOWTO does :-) While some people may enjoy reinventing
the wheel, I don't.
> Any how, I can remember they day I was thrown to the sharks just like
> that (each time I was lost or puzzled), and... It wasn't fun.
Before crying 'Oooooh! How can I do ...' spend some time reading docs.
Don't expect that people would believe your time is more expensive that theirs.
If your time is _indeed_ so dear, Linux is probably not for you, or pay to some
computer consultant.
Evgeny
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