On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 at 18:47, babydr DBA James W. Laferriere <babydr@baby-dragons.com> wrote:
        Hello all ,  Here I am again ,  Maybe my ? might be relative to the
community .

        I grabbed an archive of precompiled gnu software ,  During the
extraction I got a 'warning' from a gzip'd tar & decided to dig into the
underlying tarball to see if it was trully corrupted or repairable .

        Tada ,  I did a silly and less'd one of the binary files and noticed
that the underlying file was 'ar'd by /usr/local/alphaev6-dec-osf5.1b/bin/ar ,
well all said and done My ol' as100 ain't a ev6 .

So my Question ,  Could I use these programs that were created on a ev6 cpu
system on my ev4 ?

Under Tru64 any program compiled for any Alpha CPU will run on any other, but there will be emulation overhead when executing instructions that your CPU doesn't have.  On a much slower machine this could be pretty painful.  Not sure what you mean by an AS100 - do you have an AS1000?  Or an AS200 4/100?

-Henry