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Article: 13439 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: Neil W Rickert <rickert+nn@cs.niu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: C-Kermit 8.0 for Solaris 9?
Date: 9 Jun 2002 23:54:58 GMT
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andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel) writes:
>Frank, this shouldn't be necessary for Solaris (or any commercial
>UNIX). Just pick the oldest OS release you are going to support
>(e.g. Solaris 2.5.1) and build under that. Binary compatability
>guarantees mean this will work on all future releases providing
>you are not using unsupported or EOL'ed features (at least in
>Solaris - I can't speak for all commercial UNIXs).
This is a very nice theory.
Unfortunately, practice is different. For example "qpopper",
compiled on solaris 7, will not run on solaris 8.