Re: Need your help.

[Keith Lucas <keith@fysh.org>]

> On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Christian Reiniger wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday 12 December 2000 10:04, Prasad, Sreenivasa wrote:
> > > > /usr/bin/ABSgtar:	COFF format alpha dynamically linked, demand paged
> > > > executable or object module not stripped - Version 3.13-12.
> > > >
> > > > My question is what is this version number ?
> > 
> > Sorry, I don't know that. For my ELF executables it reports Version 1.
> 
> AFAIK, COFF is the format used on Alpha:
> 
> borr > uname -a 
> OSF1 borr.diku.dk V4.0 878 alpha
> borr > file /bin/ls
> /bin/ls:        COFF format alpha dynamically linked, demand paged
> executable or object module stripped - version 3.11-10 
> 
> The question would seem unrelated to Linux.

COFF means Common Object File Format. It's a way of encapsulating
binaries up so they have some useful headers on the front. Many cross
compilers generate them and they're used a lot in the embedded world.

The standard header holds things like target architecture and
requirements and details entry points.

ISTR they have a file version as a field in the header, which is
probabaly what's being read here. What it means in this context I
don't know. You might want to check out whatever generated the file
and see if it has an idea.


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