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From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To: Brian Levie <brian@levie.freeserve.co.uk>
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On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 09:38:19PM -0000, Brian Levie wrote:
> I recently installed FreeBSD  6.1, and copied many Unix files with no
> problems at all.  However when I try to run the C compiler which worked fine
> with Unix, I get the error message '/usr/bin/cc Exec format error  Binary
> file not executable'. I tried changing permissions and owner with no change.
> Any suggestions or won't the unix C compiler not work with FreeBSD?

What Unix are you talking about? Generally speaking, executables from
a non-FreeBSD system will not work on FreeBSD.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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