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Re: moving from aout to ELF






On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, Ariel Hagai 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, the majority of the novice users
> can't dig a damn thing from it, at least not in while acquiring
> the initial know-how.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 	Hagi
> 
> 
> -- 
> 			Regards
> 			Hagi Ariel
> 			(Hagi)

I disagree. Most Linux HOWTOs are very explicit and self-explainable. 
The ELF HOWTO is exactly what you need to read if you want to know about 
elf(what it is/how to upgrade et cetera.)

You could get it at any Linux ftp site. Good luck,

	Gilad.


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