Hello Nicholas,   
   > On Fri Nov 24 2017 11:01:16, Jeff Smith wrote to Nicholas Boel:   
      
   > Ok. Either way, I grabbed the archive and tried for myself with the same   
   > results. Even though those files are executable, they don't actually run and   
   > give a "Bad command of file name" error. I'm wondering if Kim created another   
   > step or the archive is just bad. Here's the steps I took:   
      
   I took basically the same steps with the exception of a different directory    
   path (/home/bbs/bbbs/). And got the same result.    
      
   > /home/axisd/tmp $ ./bcfg4 0   
   > Bad command or file name   
   > /home/axisd/tmp $ ./bbbs   
   > Bad command or file name   
      
   I did a "objdump -p /home/bbs/bbbs/bcfg4 | grep NEEDED" from a terminal window   
   and got a response:   
      
   NEEDED   libpthread.so.0   
   NEEDED   libc.so.6   
      
   Which tells me that the BBBS executable needs or can't find the specified   
   libraries.   
      
   A second thought was to check to verify that the executables were 32b or 64b   
   executables. I used the command "file /home/bbs/bbbs/bcfg4". It turned out   
   that the files were actually 32b executables. And the OS here is 64b Ubuntu.    
      
   It should be noted that 64b Linux should be able to run a 32b executable. But   
   in some cases the needed libraries do exist but can't be found.   
      
   > This was with an Archlinux VM on an HP Proliant server with an Intel Xeon   
   > processor.   
      
   It should also be noted that I haven't used or tried to install those older   
   releases of BBBS in some years. I initially installed the Win32 version of    
   BBBS and then later moved over to the Lin64 version.   
      
      
   Jeff   
      
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