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On 3/28/2011 8:27 PM, independentt wrote:
>
> Ok here is my problem I used to be able to run bIRCD on a shell before. But
> now first time I try cygwin, I WGET
> http://ircd.bircd.org/bewareircd-linux.tar.gz and unzip it, edit the config
> files. And now I try to execute it using (.) ./BIRCD and it says BASH:
> Cannot execute binary file. I have full access to the file and when I type
> file bircd it says ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
> (GNU/Linux), statically linked, stripped.
> I am a windowsx86 vista user

I could be off-base, but two quick thoughts:

1) Do the file permissions include x (executable) permission
as shown by ls -l?

2) Above you used ./BIRCD and bircd interchangeably for the names,
but in cygwin names can be case-sensitive. Have you tried the
case (upeer vs. lower) of the letters of the name exactly as
ls reports?

Best wishes -- Eliot Moss

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