SUMMARY cannot execute binary file

doh!  it was just the wrong architecture/version.
sorry for the waste of bandwidth

Jim


At 11:33 AM 8/12/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Background:
>
>Had a catastrophic filesystem failure that required 
>a reinstall of the os.  To get the system back 
>to a functional state , I needed some stuff from 
>sunfreeware like gzip, gcc etc.  
>
>After downloading the gzip package and installing 
>it however, I get the following message when 
>I run gzip under bash:
>
>bash: /usr/local/bin/gzip: cannot execute binary file
>
>under sh:
>
>/usr/local/bin/gzip: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected
>
>I thought this would be some simple problem like I am 
>missing some required package.  But after searching on these 
>error messages I've come up blank.  Insights?
>
>Jim
>
>PS, one more thing, when I ldd it:
>
>[root@mail2 /]# ldd /usr/local/bin/gzip
>ldd: /usr/local/bin/gzip: has wrong class or data encoding
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