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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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