On 4/23/15 4:26 PM, David A.D. Morano, PE, PhD wrote:

> I just compiled AST-OPEN 2014-12-24 and tried out the new KSH.
> Platform is "sol8.sun4".
> 
> ...  The most severe (I think) of these
> is for KSH to think that an entered command is falsely a function
> and then complain that it got an "exec format error" when trying to
> execute the entered command.  It also puts out something that seems
> to indicate that KSH tries to read the binary program as a function
> definition and then failing on that as well.

        Check your FPATH. You will get that error when the command is a binary
and is in an FPATH directory. FPATH is meant strictly for directories of
files that contain shell functions. The "Exec format error" comes when
ksh tries to . (source) the binary file and sees no shell function.

                                        Terrence Doyle

> ...
> 
> David A. Morano, PE, PhD
> mor...@computer.org
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