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Re: Platform?

On 15 Dec 1999, Dave Flint wrote:

> If you are using an 86K based system and say a ppc or Alfa based
> system can you run say Wordperfect on both or all systems or do you require a
> different version of the program for each cpu platform?

Wordperfect will require a different binary for each platform; so the
Alpha version will not run on the 68K system.

The same is true of any other binary; that's why rpms have i386, etc. in
their filename - so you can tell what platform they are meant for.

Cheers,

Alex.

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