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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:52:40 -0500
- From: Charles William Swiger <infidel+@CMU.EDU>
- Subject: Re: How to convert BSD a.out files to Mach files using atom
- In-Reply-To: <93Jan26.222117.22821@acs.ucalgary.ca>
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- Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 26-Jan-93 How to convert BSD
- a.out fi.. by Michael Sepa@enel.ucalga
- > I have an executable file on a SUN computer and I want to use
- > atom to convert it to an executable on my NeXT. I have tried
- > to use:
- >
- > >atom a.out machfile
- >
- > and then execute the machfile:
- >
- > >machfile
- > Segmentation fault
- >
- > [ ...munch...]
- >
- > I have studied the atom man page, but I don't have a clue. Could
- > some kind person show me the light? Maybe I don't know what
- > atom is supposed to do. I thought it could convert executables.
-
- Atom converts executables and object files compiled for the NeXT in the
- BSD4.3 a.out format into the Mach-O format. There is no way that it is
- going to be able to convert an executable compiled for a different
- machine into something runable on the NeXT. (Why? Amoung many reasons,
- the Sun executable likely was compiled for a different *CPU* than the
- 680x0...)
-
- You will have to get the source code to whatever it is and recompile it
- for the program to run on your NeXT. (Sorry...)
-
- -Chuck
-
-
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