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From: Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com>
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Even though on Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 11:00  Abu Khaled 
realized that everything he says should be taken 'cum grano salis',
he unhesitatingly continued with this missive:

> On 8/21/05, Premal Mishra <premal.mishra@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,

> > Trying to run a binary file and it gives me an error :

> > "ELF Binary Type 0 Not Known"

> > How can i fix this?

> > Regards,
> > Premal.
> 
> What type of binary do you have?
> # readelf -h <filename>
> look for OS/ABI it lists the binary type
> eg: OS/ABI:    UNIX - Linux

I've used 'brandelf' to fix problems like this in the past.

I've had some Linux binaries that did not like 0 and branding them
type 3 cured the problem.

Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com