brad@optilink.UUCP (Brad Yearwood) (11/30/90)
Does anyone know if NeXT makes available the source code to their
"atom" utility (on their GNU disk or on some other distribution)?
I would like to try a performance benchmark with a couple of third-party
programs which are available only as Sun-2 executable files, and "atom"
will not accept these. These programs unfortunately have small text
segments, so the subterfuge of first using Sun's "sun3cvt" utility before
"atom" does not work - it wants the text segment to be >128K.
I am not yet certain whether Sun-2 executables fall afoul of something
fundamental in the NeXT Mach environment which would prohibit conversion,
or if Sun-2 executables were simply not relevant enough to justify investing
any effort in atom's being able to process them.
Brad Yearwood {uunet, pyramid}!optilink!brad Petaluma, CA