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  From: Alan Kennington <Alan.Kennington@dsto.defence.gov.au>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 18:13:33 +1030 (CST)

Re: StarOffice

Topic:
-   impossible impossibility of loading an executable file!

My problem with StarOffice is more fundamental.
I've unloaded the latest release onto a pentium 133 or something
running kernel 2.0.18:

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Linux linux2 2.0.18 #1 Tue Sep 10 10:15:48 EDT 1996 i586
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And I follow the instructions up to running "./setup".
But both bash and csh shells do not think the file is there.
In fact it is defintely there. The following is after running "csh":

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[root@linux2]$ pwd
/usr/local/star/so50/office50_inst
[root@linux2]$ ls -l setup
-rwxrwxr-x   1 4534     310         86480 Nov  6 03:07 setup
[root@linux2]$ file setup
setup: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, stripped
[root@linux2]$ ./setup
./setup: Command not found.
[root@linux2]$
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How can this happen?
Whether this is OfficeStar or anything else, the shell should at least
see an executable there.

With "bash", I get:

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[root@linux2 office50_inst]# ./setup
bash: ./setup: No such file or directory
[root@linux2 office50_inst]#
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It's extremely frustrating when impossible things happen!

Cheers,
Alan Kennington.

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PS. By the way, if I lop the first byte off the "setup" file (using tail),
I get a binary format error, as you would expect.
This is consistent with the idea that someone has written a binary
"setup" which just prints out the message "./setup: Command not found.".
But it's also possible that the OS is somehow inconsistent with the
binary format.

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