a crackpot idea i had

[dep]

begin  Keith Antoine's  quote:

| One point and I have seen chatter about it before BUT: What
| difference would an i386.rpm have to an i686 and would it be best
| to do them as i386? Suse rpms will install with Caldera, won't they
| ?

i686 stuff is (supposedly) optimized for later chips and won't run on 
earlier ones; the lowest common denominator is i386. and suse rpms 
might or might not work, depending on where suse puts stuff compared 
to where ed 2.4 did. among the leading differences is /etc/.
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dep

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