> >> On Fri, 2 May 1997 13:39:34 +0200 (MET DST), Thomas Koenig
> >> <ig25@mvmap66.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de> said:
>
> TK> Dropping a.out support would also go a long way towards
> TK> establishing that Linux is NOT a serious operating system. It
> TK> would also penalize those companies who first showed trust in
> TK> Linux by making their commercial software available at a time
> TK> when a.out was the only recognized format.
>
> Would not any serious commercial vendor have a new ELF release of
> there product, more than 2 years after it has been introduced?
a.out is great for install and rescue disks because it is very much
smaller.
> Peter Mutsaers Lucent Technologies, Network Systems
Hubert mantel@suse.de