Charles Sharp wrote:
>
> I've been having trouble getting some applications to run on my machine.
>
> I downloaded some apps in compiled binary form already and everytime I
> go to run them it says "cannot execute binary program". How can I make
> it so these applications will run? One of them was a mud client,
> another was the game Doom that I downloaded from www.download.com. I'm
> running Mandrake 7.0.2 (AIR). Thanks in advance.
They are probably old style AOUT binaries, open them with a text editor
or kless & see if they say ELF at the top of the file like the other
apps
in /bin (I have never had an AOUT binary, so I don't know what they say
at the top).
There is no default support for them in newer (any?) versions of MDK,
you have to recompile your kernel & add it (not hard AFAIK, make
menu/xconfig should read your current config & all you'll have to do
is check the box for aout binaries (haven't tried this though, you
may want to check 1st)).
-WBD
