On Wed, 21 Feb 1996 10:37:17 -0500 (EST) 
 "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:

 > Having had lots of trouble every time I've tried to compile kernels
 > without COMPAT_43, I was wondering...

Been fixed...

 > What exactly *IS* COMPAT_43 for, anyway? I mean, its not like I have
 > all these old BSD 4.3 binaries sitting around for my box...

Mostly, it's for ioctl interfaces, etc.  There are a lot of programs out 
there that frob with terminals without using termios, for example.

Most (all?) of the userland code in NetBSD's tree has been converted.

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