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From: frankc@netcom.com (Frank Crowell)
Subject: Re: Tads on Unix
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Date: Sat, 24 Dec 1994 03:44:18 GMT
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The Essential Addition (rbryan@netcom.com) wrote:

: I figured I'd have some fun and play around with TADS on my unix shell on 
: netcom.  Naturally, it didn't work.

: Here's the output:

: {netcom11:98} tadsc goldskul.t
: Cannot execute binary file.
: tadsc: Exec format error

: What's up?  tadsr gives me the same reply.

: Help would be appreciated.

Looks like bad binaries.  If you just type:
	tadsc
You should get a help screen.  If thats not happening
then its a binary problem.

Assuming that you got your TADS from ftp.gmd.de,
make sure that you got the sparc-sunos version, not
the sparc-solaris.  

-frank

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