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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:08:18 -0500
From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Maybe it is april fool's after all ...
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Compatibility mode? Why? Surely you just recompile the programme for
the target machine, you have the source, after all. A minute, tops.

--jim

On Fri Jan 20 06:59:15 EST 2006, devon.odell@gmail.com wrote:
> The specific reason many Linuxes do this is for i386 compat on AMD64
> architectures. It's horribly broken, but is only slightly worse than
> the way FreeBSD implements it, which is to have /usr/lib32
> 
> --Devon