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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!uhura1!bryan
  3. From: bryan@uhura1.uucp (A. Bryan Curnutt)
  4. Subject: Re: Is Sun losing touch with its customers?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec22.102212.3849@uhura1.uucp>
  6. Organization: Stoner Associates, Inc./DREM Incorporated, Houston Texas
  7. References: <BzI0Ls.GGo@shakti.ncst.ernet.in> <id.BD0W.W0I@ferranti.com> <1992Dec22.000823.1429@ultra.com>
  8. Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:22:12 GMT
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  11. In article <1992Dec22.000823.1429@ultra.com> shj@ultra.com (Steve Jay {Ultra Unix SW Mgr}) writes:
  12. >
  13. >  I don't know
  14. >why, but apparently some 3rd party vendors do use -Bstatic, so their
  15. >applications won't work on Solaris 2.
  16.  
  17. A few of them do it so their customers won't have to buy additional
  18. runtime libraries (such as the FORTRAN runtime library) in order
  19. to run their software.
  20. -- 
  21. Bryan Curnutt                                  Stoner Associates, Inc.
  22. bryan%uhura1@uunet.uu.net       (713)626-9568 voice  (713)622-7832 fax
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