Re: Is emacs in ELF format??

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From: Mike Battersby
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 1995 00:00

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cs308340@student.uq.edu.au (Paul Wyborn) writes:
>I get the following error when I try to run it.
>    bash: /usr/bin/emacs: cannot execute binary file
>I was wondering if this is in the new ELF format?

Quite possibly.  Or it may have been trashed somehow.

>I have read the ELF-HOWTO and got no leads from this to test the emacs
>binary for ELF format.

Try 'file /usr/bin/emacs'.

 - Mike

p.s. Emacs in /usr/bin? *shudder* Now I know why I never use the distributions.

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