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David, ABI is a UNIX SVR4 feature, it's got nothing whatsoever to do with AmigaDOS. So yes, it's dependant on your machine running SVR4. And of course, for the binary to work, it's also got to be compiled for your "family" of CPU. For example, let's presume Apple ported SVR4 onto the Mac (they haven't…it' just for sake of example I'm using it). Then you could take any program (other than unix itself…cause that's wherethe "magic" is done) and copy it onto an A3000UX (running SVR4…not AmigaDOS) and it'll run as is. You could not though, take the program file and run it on an Intel machine even if that machine is also running SVR4. You *should* however, be able to take your source code for that program, copy it onto the Intel machine, recompile it…and it should then run. Don