On 11/29/24 17:10, Russell Senior wrote:
I found the link:
https://www.nch.com.au/scribe/scribe.tar.gz
That extracts to:
scribe
which is a script at the top, followed by another tar.gz file.
Following the script, I pruned the script using this:
awk '/^__ARCHIVE_FOLLOWS__/ { print NR + 1; exit 0; }' scribe
which gave me 27, so i plugged that value:
tail -n +27 scribe > scribe-interior.tar.gz
then I made a scratch subdirectory and extracted the interior tar.gz
mkdir scratch
cd scratch
tar xzvf ../scribe-interior.tar.gz
That expanded into a bunch of files, including bin/scribe. I tried running it:
./bin/scribe
qemu-i386-static: Could not open '/lib/ld-linux.so.2': No such file
or directory
Checking the type of binary:
file bin/scribe
bin/scribe: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
(SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2, for
GNU/Linux 2.6.8, stripped
which implies it is a 32-bit binary.
Not sure that's going to work on a 64-bit system. You can look at the
contents of the install.sh script too.
Thanks for all the digging you've done.
Can I create a virtual 32 bit machine on my 64 bit version of
VirtualBox? If I can, that doesn't solve the password problem, though.
I'm going to look through my old machines and see what I have that I can
install a version of Windoze on. Maybe that will work. I still have some
older Windoze CDs. Maybe one of them will work. Then my only problem is
finding space on the floor or the bench for yet another machine. ;-)
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
