[TUHS] Question about compiled programs on a newer machine type be usable ?

[babydr DBA James W. Laferriere]

 	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 ?

 		Tia ,  JimL

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