Darren New wrote: > > Um, sure. Show me a 10-year-old Linux program or Mac program that runs > without recompiling?
I can't make it to QUITE ten years. % uname -s -r -v -m -p -i -o Linux 2.6.18-8.1.4.el5 #1 SMP Fri May 4 22:15:17 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux % cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 (Tikanga) % wget http://archive.debian.org/dists/Debian-2.0/main/binary-i386/shells/sash_2.1-3.deb --snip-- % ar p sash_2.1-3.deb data.tar.gz | tar xzf - bin/sash; ls -l bin/sash; bin/sash -rwxr-xr-x 1 jhriv jhriv 270744 Mar 22 1998 bin/sash Stand-alone shell (version 2.1) > If you *really* want me to look, I can poke around Debian 1.3.1 (circa 1997) for some programs that still work on Fedora Core 5, with no recompiling at all. The archives that are publicly accessible for Debian 1.1 and 1.2 are source only, so they make poor candidates. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
