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Date:      Sat, 13 Dec 1997 19:41:12 -0800 (PST)
From:      Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>
To:        current <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   problems with gzip'd executables
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971213193041.20991D-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>

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Has anyone else noticed that gzip'd programs will give errors when you run
them, however uncompressing them will remedy the situation.  I have a
feeling this has something to do with the recent changes to the dynamic
linker.  Any ideas?

zippy:~#/usr/local/bin/tcsh
You have mail.
# exit
zippy:~#cd /usr/local/bin
zippy:/usr/local/bin#gzip -9 tcsh
zippy:/usr/local/bin#./tcsh.gz 
/usr/libexec/ld.so: Cannot find program's a.out header
zippy:/usr/local/bin#strings /kernel|grep gzip
gzip
___pseudo-device        gzip            # Exec gzipped a.out's

- alex





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