Re: getting Maple V5 to run on Sarge

[Jon-o Addleman <jonathan.addleman@mail.mcgill.ca>]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:35:57PM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt spake thusly:
> On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 19:10, martin f krafft wrote:
> > does anyone know how i can get my (ancient) version of maple to start
> > up on my sarge system? something about libc-compat, but i can't
> > remember. right now, the binary just "isn't found...":
> 
> I remember in summer 1983 when taking Math 140B (second term, first year
> of Advanced Calculus, University of Waterloo) when we were shown an
> alpha of the original Maple. Someday, I should look at it again ;)
> > 
> >   fishbowl:..e/bin_IBM_INTEL_LINUX> ./xmaplev5
> >   zsh: no such file or directory: ./xmaplev5
> >   fishbowl:..e/bin_IBM_INTEL_LINUX> ls -l !!
> >   ls -l ./xmaplev5
> >   -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      5503876 1999-01-08 17:16 ./xmaplev5

Is the maple executable in a.out format, maybe? If your kernel only had
elf support, maybe you'd get an error like that. Not sure though...

Try 'file xmaplev5'

-- 
Jon-o Addleman