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Re: [suse-linux-e] Newbie Question: ELF or aout



On Fri, 06 Aug 1999, you wrote:
> I need to setup a DynDNS client on my SuSE box and my provider offers an ELF
> or aout binary. Not sure which one I need, if I need anything else to use
> one of these, or which one is the best.
>
> Thanks for any info!

Get the ELF version. a.out was the binary (AKA executable) format several
years ago, so unless you are running a kernel older than dirt, you'll use ELF.


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