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DateFri, 20 Aug 1999 19:44:14 +0100
FromKeith Bennett <>
Subjecthow to run a.out binaries in 2.2.x ?

hi.

sorry to bother everyone with what i guess is probably just stupidity
on my part but i dont know where else to try.

i've recently been given an old copy of a program in a.out format.
the 'file' command gives the following description:

Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (ZMAGIC)

i have tried this on several machines using 2.0.x kernels and it works
fine, but with 2.2.x kernels i get the error:

Exec format error. Binary file not executable.

i get the correspondign errors in my log files:

Aug 20 19:38:07 appc-keith kernel: N_TXTOFF < BLOCK_SIZE. Please convert binary.
Aug 20 19:38:07 appc-keith modprobe: can't locate module binfmt-0064

i tried compiling a.out support into the kernel but that makes no difference.
so how do i get the kernel to run these programs?

thanks.

keith.

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