On Wednesday, August 07, 2013 8:08:17 pm Hugh O'Brien wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm a relatively long time user but was recently reading through the > handbook to see if there was anything I could learn when I found this > section: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/binary- formats.html > > It's an interesting read, but I must question the wisdom of including it in > this stage of the handbook, where users are still new to the system. It > stands apart from the more immediately practical knowledge in the previous > pages and might be better suited to a page on writing your own programs. > > I just wanted to call attention to this,
This section should likely just be axed. It was a Big Deal when FreeBSD 3.0 switched from a.out to elf, but FreeBSD has been an ELF-only system for over a decade now. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
