[lug] CDrecord Download

[Robert L. Harris]

Do a "file /usr/bin/cdrecord" to make sure it's an executeable
binary, and not a tar file.  Also make sure the file is executeable.

Robert

Thus spake David Willcox (acesouth at frii.com):

> Hi guys,
> I have two cpu's until I can get my 'KDE' to dial in and thanks to
> Doug Bonnell I'm getting close.
> I did something wrong! After downloading 'cdrecord.gz' from my
> windows cpu and copied it to floppy I loaded it in my Linux box
> with 'copy a:'. Now the it's named 'cdrecord.tar.gz' 
> So I tried 'ungzip cdrecord.tar.gz' and it did unzip but has file
> name 'cdrecord.tar'. So out of ignorance I did a cp 'cdrecord.tar'
> to 'cdrecord' and after Renaming my old /usr/bin/cdrecord I put
> it in that directoy.
> Now when I use the cdrecord command it tells me (Linux 6.1 Mandrake) it cannot execute a binary file.
> What or when did I go wrong?
> 
> Thanks ahead,
> 
> David Willcox :-)




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FYI:
 perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'