Re: more intel thanks wrong format exe

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 09 Oct 2024 12:52:10 +0000 Jim McNamara <jmcnamara10001@proton.me> 
wrote:

>
> > cd /usr/local/bin
> $> ls
> blob.cob  blob.dll  blob.exe  cobc.exe  cob-config  cobcrun.exe  cygcob-4.dll 
>  platinfo
> $> ./blob.exe
> bash: ./blob.exe: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
> $> dos2unix blob.exe
> dos2unix: Binary symbol 0x00 found at line 1
> dos2unix: Skipping binary file blob.exe
> $>
>
> Hi looks like i grabbed wrong source it ended in .tar.gz thought I was good 
> to go?
>
> filename: gnucobol-3.2.tar.gz
>
> thanks

If you are on a Debian flavored Linux (Debian, Raspberian, Armbian, Ubunto,
etc., you should be able to get gnucobol from the Debian repo:

sudo apt install gnucobol4

I am running Raspberian (Debian 12) on a Pi 5:

marchhare% dpkg-query -l gnucobol4
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercaseºd)
||/ Name           Version                 Architecture Description
+++-==============-=======================-============-=======================>
ii  gnucobol4      4.0~early~20200606-6+b1 arm64        COBOL compiler



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