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- From: jclark@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (John Clark)
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- Subject: Re: FAQ ?
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- Date: 21 Jul 92 06:51:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul20.094659.10941@chicco.sea.sublink.org> ugo@chicco.sea.sublink.org (Ugo Cei) writes:
- +First of all I would like to thank all the kind people that answered
- +my query, in particular Douglas Kemp who sent me the FAQ list. I have
- +now downloaded from hermit most of the OSK and TOP directories, but
- +haven't been able to use none of the executable programs I got. Every
- +program I tried gives me the following error message:
- +
- +Shell: can't execute "J". Error #000:216
-
- It's the old 'shell is smart enough to recognize that it cant
- execute 'J' as a script command, but too stupid to try 'exec'-ing it
- as a real live binary module'.
-
- The fix is to use the 'attr' function to mark the file as
- 'executable', and in some cases use the 'load' function as in:
-
- $ load -d recalcitrantFile
- $ recalcitrantFile ....
-
- There are several hot buttons of the things provided by Mw which
- cause me to issue the 'shame on you' line, the standard 'shell' is
- one of them. But now for a 'small' fee, you can have Mshell which
- has some fancy features (I don't know if the noticing that a file
- with the module header is in fact a binary executable, and runing it
- accordingly is one of them).
-
- I don't know if the 'TOPS' offering has a better one. I've
- tried to stick to the standard OS-9 tools, since I have customers
- who will be asking questions relative to those tools.
-
- >
- >What am I missing or doing wrong ? I put the executables in my CMDS
- >directory or in /dd/CMDS and give them execution and read permission,
- >but I can't understand what is going on.
- >
- >Also, I found very little documentation about installing the TOP
- >package. Is it sufficient to copy its directory structure to my hard
- >disk and if so, where under ? Should I run startup.top to init it ?
- >
- > Thanks a lot again,
- > Ugo
- >
- >--
- >Ugo Cei
- >S.E.A Srl - C.so Strada Nuova, 112 - 27100 Pavia (Italy)
- >Phone: +39.382.538.021 Fax: +39.382.538.023 E-mail: ucei@sea.sublink.org
-
-
- --
-
- John Clark
- jclark@ucsd.edu
-