Hi, no it's binaries alright. (actually, the 'xsetup' is called
upon froma script 'install')
/Denny
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Gustav Schaffter wrote:
> Denny, (Tja, ba!)
>
> You said that the files are there, and in emacs they show as binary.
>
> Is this true for the xsetup file as well?
>
> Is the 'xsetup' file a shell script? If so, it is possible that the
> first line of the xsetup file starts with:
>
> #!/bin/<someshell>
>
> which would instruct your bash to use 'someshell' to execute the
> contents of xsetup. If then 'someshell' is not found, I believe this
> would fail with such an error message.
>
> If xsetup is a shell script, then actually 'any' call to an external
> program may create such an error message.
>
> OTOH, if xsetup *really* is a binary, then my response was useless and
> my assumptions were wrong. :-)
>
> Best regards
> Gustav
>
> denny wrote:
> >
> > Hi, just installed RH7.0 on a new hard drive and the weirdest thing
> > happens:
> > When I try to read from the cdrom, or old hard drives (where my old 6.2
> > system is)
> > some files are unexecutable. Bash says 'File or folder does not exist'.
> > It actually
> > says it in swedish (my native language), but that's the direct
> > translation of it.
> > Hence, my matlab installation is unusable, and what is worse, I can't
> > install it again
> > from the cdrom. the files are there all right, I can view them in emacs
> > (lots of binary <g>)
> > but can't execute them. What I do is the following as root after
> > mounting the cd:
> >
> > [root@mybox/root]# ls -l /mnt/cdrom/update/bin/lnx86/xsetup
> > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2308926 dec 27 1998
> > /mnt/cdrom/update/bin/lnx86/xsetup
> > [root@mybox/root]# /mnt/cdrom/update/bin/lnx86/xsetup
> > bash: /mnt/cdrom/update/bin/lnx86/xsetup: Filen eller katalogen finns
> > inte
> >
> > 'Filen eller katalogen finns inte' = The file or
> > katalogue does not exists
> >
> > Please help!!
> > When I do exactly this on any other linux machine I got, matlab is
> > installed.
> > Best regards,
> > /Denny Åberg
>
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